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The Fate of Persephone (1877), painted by Walter Crane, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Greek myth of Hade's abduction of Persephone is briefly mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony and in more detail in the first  Homeric Hymn to Demeter ("Persephone,"  Wikipedia ). The Hymn to Demeter is 495 lines long and was written by an anonymous source. The term Homeric is only added to the hymns because they use the same dactylic hexameter and the same dialect as the Iliad and Odyssey ; however, they were not written during Homer's lifetime ("Homeric Hymns,"  Wikipedia ). Pinax of Persephone and Hades on the throne, holy shrine of Persephone, Locri, Italy, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Story Summary Hades, Lord of the Underworld, gets permission from his brother and her father, Zeus, to kidnap Persephone. When she bends over to pluck a Narcissus from the ground that was specifically put there to lure her in, Hades emerges from the ground on his char