Persephone (Greek: Περσεφόνη、 Persephone (Latin, also translated as Persephone, Persephone) is the daughter of the main god Zeus and the agricultural god Demeter in ancient Greek mythology, the queen of the dead, and the wife of Hades.
Persephone herself is a goddess of seeds, which corresponds to the seeds of grains commonly used in ancient Greece. When she is in the underworld, she represents the seed that sleeps in the dark soil. When she returns to the ground in spring, the power representing Demeter, the goddess of growth, wakes up the seed, and the seed begins to sprout. The Horace goddesses in charge of the season will come to welcome Persephone back to the sisters.

Origin of Origin
According to Hesiod's Divine Manual, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter: "He (Zeus) came to the fertile bed of Demeter, and she gave birth to Persephone with white arms. She was stolen from her mother by Hades."
But unlike the children of other gods, Persephone had no fixed position at first. According to Mythology, as the daughter of Demeter, Persephone should be the goddess representing grain seeds, but usually before marriage, Persephone only exists as the follower of Demeter.
According to the Commentary on Heroic Poems, Persephone's brothers, Hermes, Ares, Apollo and Hephaestus, had sex with her; Subsequently, Demeter hid her deep in the mountains, isolating her from contact with other gods.
Becoming a queen of the underworld
Persephone has lived with his mother Demeter since childhood, and has never considered marriage. Once, Persephone picked flowers in Enna together with the nymphs Ningfu (in Homer's Epic, she was accompanied by Athena and Artemis) in the jungle. Gaia, the earth goddess, was acquiesced by Zeus, so that the earth opened a narcissus. Persephone unconsciously left her friends in the process of picking flowers. When she was about to pick the seemingly harmless narcissus, the earth cracked, Four black horses appeared with Hades' chariot. He forced Persephone onto the carriage and drove back to the underworld. Hades had long fallen in love with her and implemented this plan with the acquiescence and help of Zeus.

The robbed Persephone cried sadly for her mother. Demeter heard Persephone's cry for help, and was heartbroken. She quickly put down her farm work and ran towards the cry, but Persephone had already disappeared. Demeter was extremely anxious and searched everywhere for his daughter's whereabouts. Therefore, everything on the earth stopped growing (Demeter was the goddess of fertility and agriculture). Helios, the sun god, saw everything and told Demeter about Persephone's whereabouts (in a word, the spring fairy Aretusa revealed the truth to Demeter).
After Demeter knew the truth, he immediately found Zeus and asked him to order Hades to bring Persephone back to her immediately, otherwise she would continue to make the earth barren. At last Zeus was afraid that everything on the earth would be deserted, so he sent Hermes to persuade Hades to return Persephone to Demeter. But before Hermes arrived, Hades tricked Persephone to eat four pomegranate seeds, which made Persephone have four months to return to the underworld every year.
In another version, Askalafus tells the other gods that Persephone ate the pomegranate seeds of the underworld. Every year when Demeter is reunited with her daughter, everything on the earth grows, but in the other six months when Persephone returns to the underworld, everything on the earth is exhausted. In addition, there is another version that Hecarte rescued Persephone and became Persephone's protector in Hades.

Have mercy on Orpheus
As an afterlife, Persephone showed mercy only once. She was deeply moved by Orpheus's song and agreed with Orpheus to bring his wife Eurydice back to the world, but Persephone made a harsh request: Eurydice must walk behind Orpheus, and Orpheus must not turn around to look at Eurydice before the two reached the ground. Orpheus agreed, but just as they were about to return to the world, he could not help looking back to see if his wife was following him, so he lost his wife forever.
Punish Mingta
Mingta is the maid of Hades, the keeper of Hades. She thinks she will become the afterlife, but Hades snatches Persephone as the afterlife. Mingta is jealous, so she spreads everywhere that she is far more beautiful and noble than Persephone, claiming that Hades will come back to her, even threatening to sweep Persephone out of the house, The angry Persephone (another way of saying Demeter, the mother of Farpersephone) turned Minta into mint grass (one said that Persephone madly trampled Minta into dust, but Hades, out of sympathy, made mint grass grow in her ashes).
Grab Adonis
Adonis, born of incest by the Greek beauty Myrrha, or Zmyrna, was beautiful and moving when she was born. Aphrodite, the god of love, fell in love with him at Love at first sight and gave him to Persephone to raise. When Adonis grew up, the afterlife also fell in love with him and was reluctant to let him leave. The two goddesses refused to compromise with each other and therefore requested the ruling of the main god Zeus. Zeus finally decided that Adonis stayed with Aphrodite for four months every year, and with Persephone for four months. He could decide freely for the remaining four months. But Adonis always decided to stay with Aphrodite instead of living in the dark underworld with the afterlife.

Pirito's Pursuit
Theseus and Piritoos had vowed to marry Zeus's daughter. Theseus chose Helen, and the two people kidnapped her successfully. They could get married only when she became an adult; Piritoos chose Persephone, so they set out for the underworld again. Hades, the underworld king, pretended to give a banquet to welcome them, and as soon as they sat down, he sent out venomous snakes to tightly entangle their feet (one said their legs were fixed by stones growing from the ground). It was not until the great hero Heracles came to the underworld to rescue the trapped Theseus when he was doing the twelfth task. However, when he tried to release Piritoos, the earth shook, so Piritoos was left in the underworld forever. It is said that the Athenians' thighs were thin, because Theseus was trapped in his legs and pulled off some skin when he was rescued.
Give birth to Melinoue
After his daughter Persephone was married to Hades, Zeus was still in love with her, so he turned into Hades and joined Persephone at the mouth of the crying river Cocytus, which gave birth to Melinoue. Melinoe is in charge of scheming and ghosts, often appearing in the form of ghosts, sometimes visible and sometimes disappearing, sometimes dazzling in the darkness, launching attacks from the night.

Ancient Greek art
In Ancient Greek art, Persephone's image reflects her duality. As the female ruler of the underworld, her image is a majestic and cold underworld queen holding a torch in one hand and a pomegranate in the other, together with Hades the underworld king; As a harvest goddess, her image is a beautiful girl holding ears of grain, or picking flowers in the grass with Artemis and Athena. When Persephone returns to the underworld, everything on the earth withers, and when he returns to the earth with his mother, everything recovers, which is a symbol of rebirth and death. The offerings presented to Persephone, the goddess of the underworld, are black, infertile cows. In ancient Greece, there were no separate temples dedicated to her worship.
Thesmophora
Persephone and Demeter, the two goddesses, have always shared the sacrifice. In Elucis, the common worship of these two goddesses has the nature of a secret ritual. With the further development of religious concepts, the two harvest goddesses began to be regarded as the founders and legislators of settled life closely related to agriculture. In Athens, people called Demeter and Persephone "Thesmophoria (legislator)", and believed that they were the protectors of marriage and family relations. In autumn, there is a special festival to commemorate them - Legislative Goddess Day.
Eleusinian Mysteries
For the ancient Greeks, after Persephone became the wife of Hades, the keeper of the underworld, he became ruthless and terrible from his previous innocence. Persephone has great power in the underworld. She commands the demons and ghosts of the underworld and breaks the last link between the dying and the living; Persephone is also the embodiment of a kind of dark magic. She mercilessly pulls all life into the arms of the underground dark abyss, so people call the tomb "Persephone's room". Therefore, the ancient Greeks dared not call her by her first name and were only willing to call her 'Cole'（ κόρη, Girls). Her story is also the background of Eleusinian Mysteries. It is said that this ceremony can make people who participate in it eat with the dead heroes in the terrible Persephone, so as to gain eternal life.
Orpusianism
Among the mysterious doctrines of Orpheus, Persephone has independent significance. This doctrine states that she is the wife of Zeus, the mother of Zagreus, and the goddess who created nature. Her commonly used nicknames include "Empress", "Great Goddess", etc. In the later religious system, she was confused with other Mother goddess gods or hell gods (Gaia, Rhea, Hecarte, Isis). Her Roman counterpart is Proserpina, and Proserpina is a goddess mixed with the ancient rural plant goddess Rebela. The Romans learned the worship of Persephone from the Greeks in Southern Italy and Sicily, and transplanted all the myths about her to Proserpina.