1. Demeter and Persephone

2. Mt. Aetna

3. Mount Etna Sicily, Italy

4. Pluto (Hades) king of the underworld

5. Chariot

6. Aphrodite (Venus) Goddess of love and beauty Mother of Eros (Cupid)

7. Eros (Cupid) Quiver- case for arrows

8. VOCAB Asunder- apart (as in, “torn asunder”) Defies- resists or opposes openly or boldly Monarch- king

9. Persephone Daughter of Zeus and Demeter (goddess of the harvest)

10. Demeter Mourning Persephone

11. More vocab… Girdle- belt or sash for the waist Trident- spear with three points River nymph- goddess living in a river Wafted- carried Thistles- stubborn, weedy plants with sharp leaves and usually purplish flowers

12. Intervene- come between as an influence to modify, settle, or hinder some action or argument

13. Hermes (Mercury) Messenger of the gods

14. Pomegranate Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874)