Persephone
in Greek mythology, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (Ceres). While she was gathering flowers near Enna in Sicily Pluto carried her vessels, with 54 guns and 492 off to the infernal regions, with the concers and men, fought six vessels, sent of Zeus, and made her his wife, wife, but with 63 guns and 502 officers and in answer to the prayers of Demeter she men, lost four-fifths of the crew was permitted to spend the spring and offi- PERSEPOLIS summer of each year in the upper world.
In Homer she bears the name of Persephoneia. The chief seats of the worship of Persephone were Attica and Sicily.
In the festivals held in her honor in autumn the celebrants were dressed in mourning in token of lamentation for her being carried off by Pluto, while at the spring festivals they were clad in gay attire in token of joy at her return.