Demeter and Persephone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone write by Tamara Agha-Jaffar. This book was released on 2002-09-12. Demeter and Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The classical Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone as told in Homer's Hymn to Demeter has been used most often to explain the cycle of the seasons. However, a closer examination will reveal insights on living and dying, loss and reconciliation, and suffering and healing. This work demostrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter. The following chapters discuss the symbolism of critical objects, the role of female mentoring, the role of Hades and the meaning of the underworld, the subject of rape, and the masculinist perspective presented by Zeus and Helios, and derive lessons useful for healing and knowledge. The Hymn to Demeter as translated by Helene Foley is included as an appendix in order to provide a basis for the discussion in the text. Notes and a bibliography also follow the text.
Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth
Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth write by Nancy Bookidis. This book was released on 1987. Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.
The Long Journey Home
The Long Journey Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long Journey Home write by Christine Downing. This book was released on 2001-05-01. The Long Journey Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of the mother-and-daughter goddesses Demeter and Persephone has seized the imagination of people in every age, from ancient times to the present. Considered today by many to be the archetypal myth for women, it touches on timeless themes in every life, such as the male-female relationship, love between women, initiations into puberty and old age, the mother-daughter bond, death, and ecological renewal. Christine Downing has combined essays, prose, poetry, and even performance art with her own insightful commentary to shed new light on the myth's ancient meanings and to offer new insights in its implications for contemporary men and women.
Demeter and Persephone
Demeter and Persephone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone write by Hugh Lupton. This book was released on 2013. Demeter and Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Persephone, beautiful young daughter of the harvest goddess Demeter, is kidnapped by Hades, the god of the underworld. Demeter is heartbroken, and even though the crops are dying, she cares for nothing but getting her daughter back.
Demeter and Persephone
Demeter and Persephone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Demeter and Persephone write by Justine Fontes. This book was released on 2008-02-01. Demeter and Persephone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In graphic novel format, retells the Greek myth which offers an explanation for the Earth's seasons.
