Kore
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Persephone
in the texts
Evagoras
Underworld goddess named with Pluto in the account of Aeacus' posthumous honors.
During his entire stay among men he ever enjoyed the fairest repute, and after his departure from life it is said that he sits by the side of Pluto and Kore in the enjoyment of the highest honors.
Panegyricus
Daughter of Demeter whose abduction (the 'rape of Kore') sets in motion Demeter's wandering and arrival in Attica.
When Demeter came to our land, in her wandering after the rape of Kore, and, being moved to kindness towards our ancestors by services which may not be told save to her initiates, gave these two gifts, the greatest in the world—the fruits of the earth, which have enabled us to rise above the life of the beasts, and the holy rite which inspires in those who partake of it sweeter hopes regarding bot …