persephone & eros/psyche

qtr 1, periodicals

persephone

queen of the underworld, wife of hades, daughter of demeter & zeus

demeter

goddess of agriculture, mother of persephone, grieved over persephone’s abduction

hades

god of the underworld, abducted persephone & made her queen

zeus

father of persephone, balanced persephone’s time in each realm

hermes

messenger of the gods, helps retrieve persephone from hades

pomegranate seeds

bound persephone to the underworld after hades gave it to her to eat

summer and spring

seasons when persephone is with her mother

winter and fall

seasons when persephone is with hades

aphrodite

goddess of beauty/love/fertility/desire, mother of eros, married to hephaestus, becomes jealous of psyche’s beauty

eros

god of love/passionate desire, son of aphrodite & ares, psyche’s lover

psyche

mortal woman that possessed a beauty that rivalled that of aphrodite, eros’ lover

she will marry an ugly creature

prophecy of delphi/psyche’s fate

zeus’ eagles

who helped psyche get water from the river styx

ares

father of eros, god of warfare and bloodshed