![]() ![]() So we know pretty much everything about the crime.Įxcept it is unclear when was Persephone abducted by Hades? Apparently that is a bit of a mystery. And because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above. But first he tricked Persephone, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. He did that because he was pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the complaints of other deities, who because of the famine, weren't getting their sacrifices. But finally Zeus intervened and forced Hades to let Persephone leave. Persephone’s mother, Demeter, then begged her brother Hades to allow Persephone to come back to the world of the living, saying that the young Persephone was not supposed to live in the world of the dead. She did and Helios told Demeter all about how Hades had dragged Persephone into the underworld. Hekate took pity on Demeter and told her to seek help from the all seeing Helios, the sun god. In the depth of her despair, she forbade the earth to produce fruit (or she neglects the earth which results in nothing growing).įinally, Demeter met Hekate, the old Witch. So one day while she was gathering flowers with her friends, Hades burst out of the ground in his chariot, snatched Persephone and took her into the underworld.ĭemeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, disguised herself as an old woman and with lighted torches in her hands roamed the Earth looking for her daughter. But knowing that Demeter would not agree to the marriage, Zeus permitted Hades to abduct Persephone. He asked his brother Zeus for permission to marry her and Zeus agreed. Hades, the god of the underworld fell in love with beautiful Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter. ![]() ![]() The story of Persephone's abduction by Hades is described in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. It is sooo not Formal Greek which all the other depictions of this scene are. ![]()
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