3.) Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with torches, until at length she discovered the place of her abode. 146.) Pluto accordingly carried her off while she was gathering flowers with Artemis and Athena. Zeus, it is said, advised Pluto, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to carry her off, as her mother, Demeter, was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. The story of her being carried off by Pluto, against her will, is not mentioned by Homer, who simply describes her as his wife and queen and her abduction is first mentioned by Hesiod ( Theog. 3.) Groves sacred to her are said by Homer to be in the western extremity of the earth, on the frontiers of the lower world, which is itself called the house of Persephone. 114), and the Erinnyes are said to have been daughters of her by Pluto. § 15.) Hence she is called by later writers Juno Inferna, Auerna, and Stygia (Virg. § 5.) Homer describes her as the wife of Hades, and the formidable, venerable, and majestic queen of the Shades, who exercises her power, and carries into effect the curses of men upon the souls of the dead, along with her husband. § 1 ) in Arcadia she was worshipped under the name of Despoena, and was called a daughter of Poseidon Hippius and Demeter, and said to have been brought up by the Titan Anytus.
26.) Being the infernal goddess of death, she is also called a daughter of Zeus and Styx (Apollod. The Latin Proserpina, which is probably only a corruption of the Greek, was erroneously derived by the Romans from proserpere, "to shoot forth." (Cic. Pherrephassa, Pherephatta, and Phersephoneia, for which various etymologies have been proposed. But besides these forms of the name, we also find Persephassa, Phersephassa, Persephatta, Phersephatta. 56), the Homeric form being Persephoneia. § 1.) Her name is commonly derived from pherein phonon, "to bring" or "cause death," and the form Persephone occurs first in Hesiod ( Theog. PERSE′PHONE (Persephonê), in Latin Proserpina, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. THE ERINYES (by Haides) (Orphic Hymns 29 & 70) ZAGREUS (by Zeus) (Orphic Hymn 29, Hyginus Fabulae 155, Diodorus Siculus 4.4.1, Nonnus Dionysiaca 6.155, Suidas s.v. ZEUS & STYX (Apollodorus 1.13) OFFSPRING ZEUS & DEMETER (Hesiod Theogony 912, Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, Apollodorus 1.29, Pausanias, Ovid Metamorphoses 5.501, Ovid Fasti 4.575, Nonnus Dionysiaca 5.562, et al) At other times she appears enthroned beside Haides. Sometimes she was shown in the company of her mother Demeter, and the hero Triptolemos, the teacher of agriculture. Persephone was usually depicted as a young goddess holding sheafs of grain and a flaming torch. In other myths, Persephone appears exclusively as the queen of the underworld, receiving the likes of Herakles and Orpheus at her court. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides-a handful of pomegranate seeds-she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate (Hecate) bearing torches. Once upon a time when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld as his bride. Persephone was titled Kore (Core) (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife. She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides (Hades). Destroy-Slay Persephone, Athenian red-figure bell krater C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art
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