When Zeus commanded Plouton to send Kore (Core) back up, Plouton gave her a pomegranate seed to eat, as assurance that she would not remain long with her mother. When she learned from the Hermionians that Plouton had kidnapped her, enraged at the gods she left the sky, and in the likeness of a woman made her way to Eleusis. Demeter roamed the earth over in search of her, by day and by night with torches. 'Plouton (Pluto) fell in love with Persephone, and with Zeus' help secretly kidnapped her. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : The Argives and Kretans, in local cult myths, also claimed the sites of the Rape and the Return.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES RAPE OF PERSEPHONE (APOLLODORUS) The oldest version of the story is located in the vicinity of Eleusis near Athens but later writers, especially the Greek colonists of southern Italy, placed the story on the island of Sicily. This page contains ancient Greek versions of the tale beginning with an abbridged version of the celebrated Homeric Hymn to Demeter, followed by several minor versions-such as that of Diodorus Siculus-, other ancient synopses, and assorted references. THE RAPE OF PERSEPHONE was the tale of the abduction of the springtime goddess Persephone by Haides, king of the underworld. Pluto, Dis The Rape of Persephone, Greek fresco from Macedonian tomb C4th B.C., Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai

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