By Cheyenne Mickelson

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• Persephone is the wife of Hades, God of the underworld.

• She is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest and Zeus, king of gods.

• She was abducted by Hades and became his wife.

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• Her abduction and time spent in the Underworld is used to explain the changing of the seasons.

• The Homeric form of her name is Persephoneia

• Persephone is sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Dead.”