Hades abducts Persephone 400s BCE(?)
"Hermes did not disobey, but straightaway he headed down beneath the depths of the earth,
rushing full speed, leaving behind the abode of Olympus.
And he found the Lord inside his palace,
seated on a funeral couch, along with his duly acquired bedmate,
the one who was much under duress, yearning for her mother, and suffering from the unbearable things
inflicted on her by the will of the blessed ones.
Going near him [Hadês] and stopping, the powerful Argos-killer said to him:
“Hadês! Dark-haired one! King of the dead!
Zeus the Father orders that I have splendid Persephone
brought back up to light from Erebos back to him and his company, so that her mother
may see her with her own eyes and let go of her wrath and terrible mênis
against the immortals."
-Homeric Hymn to Demeter, lines 340-351 (translation by Gregory Nagy)
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| Fragment of terracotta relief depicting Hades abducting Persephone South Italian (from Locri). |
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