- Greek Queen of the Underworld, married to Hades
- Daughter of Demeter and Zeus
- Persephone was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring’s bounty.
- Some celebrate her return to the surface bringing spring and renewed life at the end of May.
- Some celebrate her return to her husband, Hades, in the underworld at the end of September bringing the onset of winter and darkness.
- In Roman mythology she was called Proserpina.
- The mythologist Karl Kerenyi has identified Persephone with the nameless “mistress of the labyrinth” at Knossos.
