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Demeter and Persephone Holding the royal scepter and sheaf of wheat. ca 450 BC National Museum Athens Greece. Demeter The well beloved Grain Goddess of Ancient Greece. Abduction of Kore. Rape of Persephone. Greek fresco Vergina Museum Vergina Greece ca 4th Cent BC.
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Demeter and Persephone • Holding the royal scepter and sheaf of wheat. • ca 450 BC National Museum Athens Greece
Demeter • The well beloved Grain Goddess of Ancient Greece
Rape of Persephone • Greek fresco • Vergina Museum • Vergina Greece • ca 4th Cent BC
Zeus • Aiming a lightning bolt with eagle perched on left hand. • 5th century BC • Musee du Louvre • Paris France
Hecate • With Torches to light the way to the Underworld • Hermitage • St Petersburg, Russia • ca. 500-450 BCE
Helios • God of the sun, • Ca. 5th century B.C. • British Museum London
Ceres (Demeter) • Holding a tuft of grain • Vatican Museum Rome, Italy
Persephone and Haides • ca 330-310 BC Antikensam-mlungen, Munich, Germany
Persephone Eating pomegranate seed • ca 450-400 BCE • Classical period • British Museum London UK
Haides Returns Persephone to the world accompanied by Hermes and Hekate • ca 350 BC • British Museum
The Return of Persephone • by Frederic Leighton • 1891
Hermes leads Persephone out of underworld. They are greeted by Hekate and Demeter • Classical period • Metropolitan Museum NYC
Demeter and Triptolemos • ca 480 BC • Badisches Landes Museum • Karlsruhe Germany
Triptolemos, Demeter and Persephone • ca 550_530 BC • Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, NYC
Demeter and Plutus • 4th Cent BC • Getty Museum Malibu CA USA
Kore, the maiden, matured into Persephone, • the Queen of the Underworld. • 4th century BC • Antikensammlunen Munich, Germany
Persephone, • Wife and Consort of Hades and Queen of the Underworld
Hades pouring fertility on the earth with Persephone • Lessons can be learned from our struggles