Monday, 26 October 2015

Homeric Hymn to Demeter

As my work would be shown in a gallery I would like to have some quotes with the work from the myth of Persephone, I found the Hymn to Demeter (Persephine's mother) which describes the myth in great detail.

Here's the quotes I would use, taken from Nagy, G. (n.d.). HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER. [online] Uh.edu. Available at: http://www.uh.edu/~cldue/texts/demeter.html [Accessed 26 Oct. 2015].:

I begin to sing of Demeter, the holy goddess with the beautiful hair.  And her daughter Persephone too. The one with the delicate ankles, whom Hades seized.

And he found the Lord inside his palace, seated on a funeral couch, along with his duly acquired bedmate, the one who was much under duress, yearning for her mother, and suffering from the unbearable things inflicted on her by the will of the blessed ones.

But he [Hades] gave her, stealthily, the honey-sweet berry of the pomegranate to eat, peering around him.

But he, stealthily put into my hand the berry of the pomegranate, that honey-sweet food, and he compelled me by biâ to eat of it. As for how it was that he [Hades] snatched me away, through the metis of the son of Kronos, my father, and how he took me down beneath the depths of the earth

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