- Alternative names
- Core Kore Pherrephatte Persephassa Persephoneia
- Information
- daughter of Demeter
- Alternative name
- 👤 Luna alternative name for Persephone
- Rationalized form
- 👤 Kore (rat. Persephone) 👤 Phersephone (rat. Persephone)
- LIMC headword
- Persephone
- Daughter of
- 👤 Demeter 👤 Styx (Oceanid) 👤 Zeus
- Wife of
- 👤 Hades
- Has children with
- 👤 Zeus
- Ruler of
- 🌍 the Underworld
- Divine patron of
- 🌍 Acragas (Sicily) 🌍 Antron (Thessaly) 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Sicily (island)
- Creates
- 🌍 River Hercyna (Boiotia)
- Cult sites
- 🌍 Mysia (Argolid) 🌍 Syracuse (Sicily) 🌍 Triphylia 🌍 the Grove of Persephone 🌍 the Sanctuary of Plouton (Acharaca)🌍 the Sanctuary of the Great Goddesses (Arcadia) 🏛️ Spring Cyane (Sicily)🏛️ the Temple of Kore Soteira (Sparta)
- Related Entities
- ⏳ the Search of Demeter for Persephone⭐ Metioche and Menippe (comets)🌍 Acragas (Sicily) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 Antron (Thessaly) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Ausonia (Italy) 🌍 Campania (Italy) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 🌍 Erebos (Underworld) 🌍 Erineos (Eleusis) 🌍 Helos (Laconia) 🌍 Hermion (Argolid) 🌍 Hipponion (Italy)🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Lebadeia (Boiotia) 🌍 Mount Minthe (Elis)🌍 Mount Olympos (N. Greece) 🌍 Mysia (Argolid) 🌍 Nysiοn Plain (unlocatable) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Phylace (Thessaly) 🌍 River Acheloos (Aitolia) 🌍 River Acheron (Elis) 🌍 River Acheron (Underworld) 🌍 River Cocytos (Underworld) 🌍 River Hercyna (Boiotia) 🌍 River Lethe (Underworld) 🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) 🌍 River Periphlegethon (Underworld) 🌍 River Styx (Underworld) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Syracuse (Sicily) 🌍 Tainaron (Laconia) 🌍 Tartaros 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Triphylia 🌍 the Elysian Fields 🌍 the Garden of the Hesperides (unlocatable) 🌍 the Grove of Persephone 🌍 the Land of the Melanes 🌍 the Rarian Plain (Eleusis) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter (Laconia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Plouton (Acharaca)🌍 the Sanctuary of Sarapis (Athens)🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Great Goddesses (Arcadia) 🌍 the Site of Persephone's abduction (Argolid) 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ Anaclethris (Megara) 🏛️ Callichoron Well (Eleusis) 🏛️ the Cave of Black Demeter (Arcadia) 🏛️ the Temple of Demeter (Eleusis) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏛️ the Temple of Kore Soteira (Sparta) 🏺 the Chariot of Hades🏺 the Chariot of Helios🏺 the Chariot of Triptolemos 🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Golden Wand of Hermes🏺 the Head of Medousa 🏺 the Helmet of Odysseus 🏺 the Horn of Amaltheia🏺 the Lyre of Orpheus🏺 the Tapestry of Arachne 👤 Acaste 👤 Admete (Oceanid) 👤 Admetos (Argonaut) 👤 Adonis 👤 Agon 👤 Aithousa 👤 Aithra (m. of Theseus) 👤 Alcestis 👤 Althaia 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Ares 👤 Artemis 👤 Ascalaphos (s. of Acheron) 👤 Asclepios 👤 Athena 👤 Callirhoe (Oceanid) 👤 Calypso (Oceanid) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Chrysanthis 👤 Chryseis (Oceanid) 👤 Circe 👤 Cleio (Muse) 👤 Cybele 👤 Demeter 👤 Dionysos 👤 Doris (Oceanid) 👤 Electra (Oceanid) 👤 Eros 👤 Eubouleus 👤 Eumolpos (Thracian) 👤 Eurydice (w. of Orpheus)👤 Eurylochos (Ithacan) 👤 Galaxaura 👤 Ganymedes (s. of Tros) 👤 Ge (personification) 👤 Hades 👤 Hecate (goddess)👤 Helen 👤 Helios 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Hera 👤 Heracles 👤 Hercyna (eponym) 👤 Hermes 👤 Hestia 👤 Hyacinthos (Laconian) 👤 Hygieia 👤 Iacchos (Eleusinian) 👤 Iache 👤 Ianeira (Oceanid) 👤 Ianthe 👤 Iolaos 👤 Laodameia (w. of Protesilaos) 👤 Leto 👤 Leucippe (Oceanid) 👤 Meleagros 👤 Melite (Oceanid)👤 Melobosis 👤 Menippe (Boiotian) 👤 Menoites 👤 Metioche (Boiotian) 👤 Minthe 👤 Nereus 👤 Nike (personification) 👤 Ocnos 👤 Ocyrhoe (Oceanid) 👤 Odysseus 👤 Orpheus 👤 Ourania (Oceanid) 👤 Peirithous (Lapith) 👤 Pelasgos (Argive) 👤 Perimedes (Ithacan) 👤 Phaethon (s. of Helios) 👤 Phaino 👤 Phobos 👤 Plouto (Oceanid) 👤 Poine 👤 Polyboia (d. of Amyclas) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Protesilaos 👤 Rhea 👤 Rhodeia (Oceanid) 👤 Rhodope (Oceanid)👤 Sparte (eponym) 👤 Styx (Oceanid) 👤 Teiresias 👤 Theseus 👤 Triptolemos 👤 Tyche 👤 Zeus 👥 the Cattle of Hades 👥 the Charites 👥 the Daughters of Celeos 👥 the Erinyes 👥 the Horai 👥 the Horses of Helios 👥 the Moirai 👥 the Nereids 👥 the Oceanids 💠 the Temple of Demeter (Athens) 💠 the Throne of Apollo (Amyclai)
- Appears in
- 📜 Homeric Hymn 13 to Demeter 1-3📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 1-32📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 301-324📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 334-356📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 375-385📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 40-50📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 405-433📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 434-440📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 441-469📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 483-495📜 Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 51-89📜 Minyad fr. 7 West📜 Minyad fr. 8 West📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.23-1.24📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 7.34📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.3.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.5.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.5.1-1.5.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.5.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.15📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.12📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.14.4📜 Bacchylides, Odes 3📜 Bacchylides, Odes 5📜 Bacchylides fr. 47📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 1-23📜 Corinna fr. 656 PMG📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 3.144📜 Euripides, Alcestis 326–365📜 Euripides, Phoenician Women 638-689📜 Euripides, Suppliant Women 1-41📜 Hesiod, Catabasis of Peirithous fr. 216 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 123 Most📜 Hesiod, Theogony 767-774📜 Hesiod, Theogony 912-914📜 Homer, Iliad 9.529-9.581📜 Homer, Odyssey 10.490-10.521📜 Homer, Odyssey 10.508-11.49📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.628-11.640📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 28.1-28.2 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 28.3 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 19.1 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades 9📜 Lucian, On Funerals 6📜 Lucian, The Dance 40📜 Lycophron, Alexandra 662-711📜 Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.201-2.271📜 Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.104-6.128📜 Pausanias 1.14.1-1.14.3📜 Pausanias 1.18.4📜 Pausanias 1.2.4📜 Pausanias 1.38.3📜 Pausanias 1.38.5📜 Pausanias 1.41.3-1.41.6📜 Pausanias 1.43.2📜 Pausanias 2.18.3📜 Pausanias 2.36.7📜 Pausanias 3.18.8📜 Pausanias 3.19.3-3.19.4📜 Pausanias 3.20.5-3.20.6📜 Pausanias 4.30.4📜 Pausanias 5.17.3-5.17.4📜 Pausanias 5.20.2-5.20.3📜 Pausanias 5.26.2📜 Pausanias 8.31.2📜 Pausanias 8.37.9📜 Pausanias 8.42.1-8.42.4📜 Pausanias 8.42.2📜 Pausanias 9.23.3-9.23.5📜 Pausanias 9.31.9📜 Pausanias 9.39.2📜 Pindar, Isthmian 8 49-60📜 Pindar, Nemean 1 1-18📜 Pindar, Olympian 14 1-24📜 Pindar, Olympian 6 92-105📜 Pindar, Pythian 12 1-32📜 Pindar fr. 133 Snell-Maehler📜 Ps-Lucian, Charidemos 16📜 Strabo 14.1.44-14.1.45📜 Strabo 16.2.38-16.2.39📜 Strabo 6.1.5📜 Strabo 8.3.14📜 Strabo 8.3.15📜 Vergil, Georgics 1.1-1.42📜 Vergil, Georgics 4.453-4.527
- Mentioned in Text
- Homeric Hymn 13 to Demeter Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter MinyadApollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryBacchylides, OdesBacchylidesCallimachus, Hymn to DemeterCorinnaD-Scholia, IliadEuripides, AlcestisEuripides, Phoenician WomenEuripides, Suppliant WomenHesiod, Catabasis of PeirithousHesiod, EhoiaiHesiod, TheogonyHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, Dialogues of the DeadLucian, Dialogues of the GodsLucian, Menippus, or the Descent into HadesLucian, On FuneralsLucian, The DanceLycophron, AlexandraOvid, MetamorphosesPausaniasPindar, Isthmian 8Pindar, Nemean 1Pindar, Olympian 14Pindar, Olympian 6Pindar, Pythian 12PindarPs-Lucian, CharidemosStraboVergil, Georgics
- Depictions
- 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Zeus (Olympia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of the Great Goddesses (Arcadia) 🏛️ the Temple of Hera (Olympia) 🏺 the Tapestry of Arachne 💠 the Temple of Demeter (Athens) 💠 the Throne of Apollo (Amyclai) 🖌️ Attic Black-Figure Plate attributed to the Gecko Painter (Otago E59.1; Beazley 6710)🖌️ Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater attributed to the Polygnotan Group (Otago E48.67)🖌️ Attic Red-Figure Krater in the manner of the Jena Painter (CAMU Δ 188; Beazley 30263; LIMC Hades 72)🖌️ Greek Terracotta Votive Figurine (Monash 127.011)🖌️ Lucanian Red-Figure Nestoris attributed to the Primato Painter (Nicholson NM46.46.1-2; LIMC Herakles 3483)🖌️ Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Capitoline 249)🖌️ Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Vatican 1195)🖌️ Wall Paintings from Ara Capitale IX 11, 1, Pompeii (P-LOD r9-i11-p1)🖌️ Wall Paintings from Casa e Panificio di Papirius Sabinus IX 3, 19-20, Pompeii (P-LOD r9-i3-p19-space-e)🖌️ Wall paintings from Casa di Trittolemo VII 7, 5, Pompeii (P-LOD r7-i7-p5-space-n)🖌️ Wall paintings from Colombarium of D. Folius Mela, Ostia (Gregoriano Profano 10789)🖌️ Wall paintings from Colombarium of the Caecilii, Ostia (Gregoriano Profano 10790)