Anthesphoria
The Anthesphoria was one of the religious festivals held in Ancient Greece in honor of Persephone's return from the Underworld.[1] According to mythological tradition, Persephone's husband, Hades, tricked her into eating four pomegranate seeds when Zeus ordered him to let her return to her mother after he had kidnapped her. Because she ate the seeds, Persephone was then forced to spend one-third of the year in the Underworld and only allotted two-thirds of the year aboveground.[2] This festival was held in Sicily and several other regions throughout the ancient world, with each one having distinct customs and rituals.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Osek, Ewa. “Ritual Imitation During the Thesmophoria at Syracuse: Timaeus of Tauromenium’s History of Sicily.” The Many Faces of Mimesis: Selected Essays from the 2017 Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Western Greece, edited by Heather L. Reid and Jeremy C. DeLong, vol. 3, Parnassos Press – Fonte Aretusa, 2018, pp. 279–92. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvbj7g5b.24. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
- ^ Homer. "Homeric Hymn to Demeter - SB". chs.harvard.edu. Translated by Gregory Nagy. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 28 April 2020.
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