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12. Ibid. - Foley, H. P. (1994), The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and
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14. Ibid. - To historian Sue Blundell, The Demeter/ Persephone myth may also reflect a more imme-
diate, less benign experience of women in ancient Greece: “Marriage to a stranger, arranged by
her father and against her mother’s wishes, and envisioned as a kind of rape, would have been a
reality and not a fanciful tale for many Greek women. That the event was also seen as bringing
with it a kind of death— a loss of individual identity— can be easily imagined. Indeed, the fear
would also be present that marriage might be fatal in a very real sense, for many women died
in childbirth. The link commonly made in myth between death and marriage can thus be seen
to have its roots in a shared feminine experience. Persephone, of course, provides the ultimate
example of this response, for she marries Death himself ”. Blundell, S. (1995), Women in Ancient
Greece. British Museum Press. - Cited by Foley, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, p. 70.
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19. Ibid. - Burkert, Greek Religion; Kerényi, C. (1967), Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and
Daughter. Princeton University Press. - A notable exception to this trend was the violent Spartan cult practiced at the Sanctuary
of Artemis Orthia. The cult is thought to have a pre- Olympian origin. - Euripides (1995), Hippolytus, trans. D. Kovacs. Harvard University Press.
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24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid. - Homer’s Odyssey, Book VI, trans. Samuel Butler. http:// classics.mit.edu/ Homer/ odyssey.
html - Frazer, J. (1959), The New Golden Bough, ed. T. H. Gaster. Mentor.
- Thornton, Eros, p. 152.