Persephone Thesis
All about Persephone
Beautiful. Naive. Stolen from her home. All these words describe Persephone. In Greek,
Persephone s name has no specific meaning. The closest words to the name are: pertho ,
which means to destroy, and phone which means murder. Proserpina is Persephone s
Roman equivalent. Her name comes from the Latin term, proserpere , which means to
emerge. The myth of Persephone started in Greece and has been passed through the
ages. She is an important part of the Ancient World and Classical Greece history. The
myth of Proserpina was adapted when the Romans conquered the Greeks in 146 B.C.
They took many parts of the greek culture, including their gods and goddesses. In Greek,
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No powers are clearly stated in the Greek version, but every spring when she emerges
from the underworld, she renews plant life. The story associated with this myth is her
mother ceased the growing of plants while she was away, but once she returned, the
plants flourished. While it was not her or her powers that made the plants start growing
again, her presence influenced it. In Roman, Ceres, Proserpina s mother, puts a curse on
the land that stops plant growth until her daughter is found. The main story for both
Greece and Rome is: A young maiden (Persephone in Greek and Proserpina in Roman) is
off picking flowers when Hades (Greek)/Pluto (Roman) abducts her, and takes her to the
underworld. Her mother, Demeter (Greek)/ Ceres (Roman) unleashes terrible conditions,
which kills the plants and makes them unable to grow, until Persephone/Proserpina is
returned. She is then allowed to go back to her mom for в…” of the year, but must stay
in the underworld for the rest.
Both versions are extremely similar. They both have the same problem, and solutions.
The main difference is the names. Persephone s name is Greek, and means negative
things, such as, destroy and murder. Proserpina s name is Latin, and means something
more positive, emerge. Another difference is: In the Greek version, Demeter stops caring
for the harvest until Persephone returns. In the Roman version, Ceres enacts a curse as
revenge, and