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including his version of the Demeter-Persephone

myth.

Homer,The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Com-

mentary, and Interpretive Essays, edited by Helene Foley,

Princeton University Press, 1994.

This edition of the most ancient source of the Deme-

ter-Persephone myth provides helpful background

and analytical material for the main mythological ref-

erence in “Seven Seeds.”

Seven Seeds

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