Tag: Persephone
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06 Photographs, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, Steven Irwin’s Venus, Ceres, Persephone and Tellus, the Earth Goddesses, with footnotes #34
Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Matthew James Collins’ Allegory: Persephone, with footnotes #125
Persephone (aka Kore) was the Greek goddess of vegetation, especially grain, and the wife of Hades, with whom she rules the Underworld. An important element of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the Thesmophoria festival, the goddess was worshipped throughout the Greek world and frequently appeared in all forms of Greek art. More on PersephoneMatthew James Collins was born in…
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