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Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld and the daughter of Demeter. She is also known as Proserpine (Roman), and Kore, which is also transliterated as Core or Cora and translated as the Maid or the Maiden. Her attributes in iconography can include a torch, a crown, a sceptre, and stalks of grain.

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Demeter and Kore: Large image, 50% image
  Archaic, AS

• Athena, Herakles, Cerberus, Hades, Persephone in Underworld: Image
  Leagros Group, 520 BC, MM

• Departure of Triptolemos: Image
  Makron Painter, ca 490-480 BC, MM

• Hades and Persephone: Large image, 50% image
  Locri, votive relief, ca 480 BC, MM

• Hades and Persephone: Image
  ca 460-450 BC, MM

• Persephone as Queen of the Underworld: Large image, 50% image
  Cult Image - Magna Graecia (Taranto) - ca 460 BC, AS

• Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos: Image: Slow to load
  Relief from Eleusis, ca 440-430 BC. NMA

• Plouton and Persephone: Image
  Codrus Painter, last quarter of 5th century BC, MM

• Persephone (Kore) as Hydranos: Large image, 50% image
  Purifying a youthful initiate
  Classical fragment from a marble stele - 1st quarter of the 4th century BC, AS

• Persephone and Hades: Large image, 50% image
  mid 4th century BC, MM

• Hades and Persephone: Image
  Lycurgus painter, the Underworld, ca 350 BC, MM

• The Rape of Persephone: Large image 50% image
  Vergina, tomb, ca 350 BC, MM

• Persephone, Triptolemus, and Demeter: Large image, 50% image
  Eleusis, votive relief, 2nd half 4th ca BC, MM

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Persephone and the pomegranate: Large image, 50% image
  Tanagra statuette, 3rd century BC, MM

• Rape of Persephone: Image
  Kerch, wall painting, 1st century AD, MM

Later Representations in Art

• Pluto and Proserpina: Image
  French manuscript, 15th century, MM

• The Rape of Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Rubens, Peter Paul, 1619-1620, MM

• Pluto and Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1621-1622, MM

• Pluto abducting Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Girardon, Francois, ca 1693-1710, MM

• The Abduction of Perserpine: Image
  Boucher, Francois, 1769, MM

• Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1874 MM

Also see Persephone texts.

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