![]() ![]() C1st A.D.Ī complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page. Crops, fruit and nature all stopped growing. She was so sad, it affected the harvest across Greece. How do you think Persephone felt Demeter could no longer see her daughter and missed her hugely. He wanted the lovely Persephone to be his wife. Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st B.C. Hades the God of the Underworld arrived through the hole and captured Persephone.Oppian, Halieutica - Greek Poetry C3rd A.D.Strabo, Geography - Greek Geography C1st B.C."Persephone of old was given grace to change a woman's form to fragrant mint." And from the earth spray the weak herb that bears her name." For she had said that she was nobler of form and more excellent in beauty than dark-eyed Persephone and she boasted that Aidoneus would return to her and banish the other from his halls : such infatuation leapt upon her tongue. ![]() "Mint (Mintha), men say, was once a maid beneath the earth, a Nymphe of Kokytos (Cocytus), and she lay in the bed of Aidoneus but when he raped the maid Persephone from the Aitnaian hill, then she complained loudly with overweening words and raved foolishly for jealousy, and Demeter in anger trampled upon her with her feet and destroyed her. Furthermore, near the mountain is a precinct sacred to Haides." Demeter, on the other hand, was overcome with grief over the loss of her daughter to the shadowy kingdom of the dead. In some versions of the myth, Zeus had given Hades permission to marry her. "Near Pylos, towards the east, is a mountain named after Minthe, who, according to myth, became the concubine of Haides, was trampled under foot by Kore (Core), and was transformed into garden-mint, the plant which some call hedyosmos. Persephone was said to have been gathering flowers in a meadow when Hades abducted her. Hades was visiting earth (a rare occasion) when he noticed the beautiful Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, picking flowers and playing with her friends. Hades immediately complied, but before he let the girl go, he urged her to eat a pomegranate seed. Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. The central myth of Hades involved his abduction of Persephone. God Hermes, summoned by Zeus, raced down to Hades to fetch Persephone. In the neighbourhood of Pylos there was a hill called after her, and at its foot there was a temple of Pluto, and a grove of Demeter. MINTHA or MENTHA (Minthê), a Cocythian nymph, and beloved by Hades, was metamorphosed by Demeter or Persephone into a plant called after her minthê, or mint, or, according to others, she was changed into dust, from which Hades caused the mint plant to grow forth. The mint was probably used in ancient funerary rites to mask the smell of the dead and so came to be regarded as a sacred plant of Haides. Yet he warned Hades that Demeter would never approve this coupling, for she would not want her daughter spirited off to a sunless world. His brother Zeus consented to the marriageor at least refused to oppose it. ![]() When she claimed to be superior to his wife Persephone, the angry goddess transformed her into a mint plant. Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with Persephone and wanted her as his bride. MINTHE was a Naiad-nymph of Mount Mintha in Elis (southern Greece) loved by the god Haides. Discover the world of New Greece in the first book of Scarlett St. ![]()
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