[PDF] Demeter And Persephone eBook

Author : Tamara Agha-Jaffar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786413430

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The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.

Author : Christine Downing
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 083482888X

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The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal. Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women.

Author : Hugh Lupton
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 36,55 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN : 9781467726436

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Persephone, beautiful young daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, is kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter is heartbroken, and even though the crops are dying, she cares for nothing but getting her daughter back.

Author : Justine Fontes
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0822565706

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In graphic novel format, retells the Greek myth which offers an explanation for the Earth's seasons.

Author : Joanna Korba
Publisher : Benchmark Education Company
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Children's plays
ISBN : 1410871665

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Perform this ancient Greek myth about Persephone and her mother.

Author : Kate McMullan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2012-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1434246779

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In this modern version of the Greek myth, Persephone asks Hades for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.

Author : Justine Fontes
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0822587912

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This graphic novel tells the story of Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest, and her daughter, Persephone. Demeter rules over a perpetual summer on earth, where crops, trees, and flowers grow in abundance. Persephone, young and beautiful, unknowingly attracts the attention of the lonely god of the Underworld, Hades. Hades kidnaps Persephone, and a frantic Demeter searches in vain for her daughter. Finally, Demeter retreats to her temple in mourning. The goddess's sorrow causes the crops to die and the ground to freeze. The first winter falls over Greece. As people begin to starve, the other Olympian gods and goddesses try to convince Demeter to accept a marriage between Persephone and Hades. But Demeter will not give up her daughter forever to the Underworld. Finally a compromise is struck: Persephone will stay with Hades for half a year (winter). When she comes back from the Underworld to spend half a year with her mother, spring returns to earth.

Author : Vic Malachai
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category :
ISBN :

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The daughter of King Zeus of Olympus lived a small life. The least of his sons and daughters, hers was not the moon, or love, or battle...so low that she should have more rightly been numbered among his demigod children. Kore lingered at the edge of the feast hall, watching the great gods and goddesses revel. Too useless to sprout the grain with the nymphs, she followed her mother, Demeter, through the fields and made the flowers bloom, and she wasn't even too good at that. But what she liked best was when she was allowed to wander the woodlands and towns of the mortal world alone. It was there she found her destiny, one that would shake the world from the top of Olympus to the depths of Hades. Kore does not belong in the shadows, and she is not the Goddess of Flowers, spring or otherwise. But things never start out that way. It started, as many stories do, with a boy and a girl in a meadow. This is not the story passed down from Demeter's priests and priestesses. It is not the song sung for Demeter by her nymphs as her tears make the seasons turn. But it was never Demeter's story to tell at all. Grab your copy today to hear Persephone's side of the tale!

Author : Nancy Bookidis
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876616710

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When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.

Author : Christine Downing
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1570626855

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The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal. Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women.