Greek Mythology's Demeter: Goddess Of Grain

Together, the two patriarchal figures conspire to kidnap and force Persephone to marry Hades. This is done behind Demeter’s back, intentionally removing her from her role as mother. Their actions directly diminish or outright remove the will of Demeter, a symbol of women in Greek culture (The Homeric Hymn to Demeter 29-30). This theme of a removal of female autonomy is mirrored later in the text when Hades tricks Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds. This action is a deliberate attempt to remove Persephone’s ability to choose for herself, condemning her to spend the winter months in the underworld with him. Not only does this subjugate Persephone to Hades’ will, but it also lends justification to the subjugation of women by men (372-400). By removing the sovereignty of the female mind, the myth promotes male authority.

Her sadness was shown to Helios and he told her the truth of her daughter. She was furious and said that zeus would be angry aswell but actually zeus agreed to the union from the start. She Then told zeus she would never again give harvest to people until she got her daughter. Zeus the became worried he didn't want his people to starve I f they did they wouldn't worship him anymore. He then sent Hermes to sort things out for him. But once he got there he saw Persephone Hades sitting on a couch and by then Persephone began to fall for Hades as well. Then he saw Persephone eat six pomegranate seeds and then he realized he was too late. Hermes then persuaded Hades to let her go but Hades said for six months of every year she was to be with him and the other six she could be with her mother. It was agreed and now every spring Persephone is with Demeter and during winter she is with Hades. So now today when fall comes and the weather becomes colder Persephone is in the underworld while Demeter is on earth alone. And when spring comes Persephone is home with her mother to bring us

to spend time with her mother, Demeter goes back to growing and harvesting crops. In the end Persephone fell in love Hades over time, since she was the only person he felt the need to be kind and loving too, and she was able to spend time with her mother (“Persephone, Queen of the Underworld”).

     Hades is one of the brothers of Zeus. He is the unlucky one who got to rule the underworld. He is cruel and unforgiving. Only two have ever gone to Hades domain and returned, Hercules and Odysseus. Hades fell in love with Zeus’s daughter and devised a plan to abduct her. With Zeus’s help they succeeded in the capture of Persephone. Her mother Demeter was so enraged she cursed the Earth. She continued the curse even after she was released. It was only after her mother Rhea was allowed to see her that she let the Earth prosper (message).

Demeter looked for her daughter for months, but tired and sad she sat on a rock for 9 days and nights. Looking as a sad old woman a farmer 's daughter asked for why 's she was sitting on the rock alone. Her father begging his daughter to come back, then the goddess spoke.

The Rape of Persephone began as a simple story of peace and unchanging atmosphere. Demeter, goddess of the earth, agriculture and fertility in general, withheld her gifts from the earth in an act of isolation and depression once she lost Persephone. Before tragedy struck, she was loved by all for providing a climate for crops to flourish year round.Persephone held the sweetest disposition and was admired by all who knew her- including the God of the dead, Hades. However, unbenounced to her and her mother, her father Zeus had agreed to the turmoil that would soon ensue. As Persephone quested for the most enchanting flower, Hades, “the lord of the dark underworld, the king of the multitudinous dead, carried her off underneath the earth, driving a

Mother and daughter were finally reunited. Ceres sensing that something was wrong questioned her daughter. Finally Proserpina admitted to being trick in to eating the food of the underworld. Demeter again was distraught because she know to eat the food of the underworld means that person must return to the underworld. Jupiter powerless to do anything decreed that Proserpina spend 1/3 of the year in the underworld with her new husband and the other 2/3 she was allowed to return to earth or Olympus. She would now be known as the goddess of the underworld. With this compromise Ceres restore to order the growing of crops and put an end to the famine and starvation. From the union of Proserpina and Pluto came Plutus the god of wealth.

Several versions of Persephone's myth begin with her gathering flowers in a field. As she was picking a flower, the ground beneath her split open and Hades rose up in his his chariot. Hades wanted Persephone as his wife, so he carried her down into the Underworld where she was forced to marry him.

Chelsea started the discussion off with a quick summary of Foley’s essay. She mostly wrote about the main points, like “Demeter’s role in the Olympian struggle for cosmological power” and how Demeter’s role differs from Zeus’s role in the hymn. She also addresses the question saying that Demeter’s role in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter was the rebel because, despite Zeus wanting the gods and humans to be separate, Demeter shows that the gods and humans are “permanently connected.” She went on to say that Demeter’s reliance on humans during the hymn mirrored the gods reliance on humans and their sacrifices to the gods.

Tilepatheia is the goddess of poetry and telepathy. She is the daughter of Apollo and Calliope. Apollo taught Tilepatheia how to fight and also helped her with her poetry. She is very brave, intelligent, helpful, and she never gives up. Although she doesn’t believe in herself, she still fights for what she believes in. Tilepatheia has one true friend: Chaothinia. Chaothinia the goddess of chaos and destruction. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She has some traits in common with Tilepatheia, however, some are still different. She achieves her goals, no matter how hard, she stands for what she believes in, she is nice but only when she’s calm, and she never gives up. Both have many negative traits that prevent them from accomplishing their goals. Chaothinia destroys things, and sometimes people, that get in her way she’s vengeful, dangerous to be around when angered and short-tempered. Tilepatheia lies to protect people’s feelings, she’s short-tempered, doesn’t believe in herself, and she relies on what others think of her.

Persephone didn’t quite have the same feelings towards her uncle, and Hades couldn’t handle it. He abducted Persephone so they could live a perfect life together. Zeus knew about the abduction, and didn’t do anything to stop it. Demeter searched everywhere for her daughter, and after many failed efforts she began to feel helpless. Being the goddess of agriculture and earth, her sadness created a drought.

The great god Zeus granted his bother Hades, god of the underworld, his daughter Persephone for marriage. But the king of gods doesn’t feel the need to tell Persephone or her mother, Demeter, goddess of agriculture, of his final decision.

When Zeus and Hades retuned almost everyone had forgotten about Perculus, Diminutive and Gargantuan. But little did Zeus know Perculus had become good friends with Aphrodite (Goddess of love and beauty), and Aphrodite was wondering where he was. When she went to ask Hades where Perculus went, he panicked and made up a ridiculous lie. Then she knew something was going on. She then decided to search Hades lair. There she found Perculus, Diminutive and Gargantuan tied to a ship being prepared to be exiled. She then untied them and she then had them explain what was going on. Form there she obviously sided with the three gods. Diminutive and Gargantuan ran away to an unknown place but Aphrodite and Perculus got revenge by taking away most of Zeus education and diminishing the love life for Hades, both acts preformed by the gods.

Demeter and Persephone I like the story of Demeter and Persephone so much that I did my research paper and one of my response essays on it. In the story of Demeter and Persephone, Zeus and Hades conspire against Demeter and arrange a marriage between Hades and Persephone. They hid this from both goddesses and Hades abducted Persephone before she could realize what was happening. By the time Demeter realized that Persephone was gone she was already in the underworld with Hades feeling miserable because she would never see her beloved mother again.

In this essay we will be studying the Homeric Hymns, including the Hymn to Apollo, to Hermes, and to Aphrodite, with particular emphasis on the Hymn to Demeter. Although he Homeric Hymns are of unknown authorship and differ widely in date, the Hymns that we will be focused on, are generally thought to have been composed between the 7th and 5th centuries BC (citation). The Hymn to Demeter is unlike the other Homeric Hymns in that Demeter refuses to submit to Zeus, and channels her own authority through her gift of fertility; Demeter displays power as a Goddess through her motherhood, not in spite of it, and affronts the