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A) Was Persephone abducted by Hades? Yes.

B) Did Persephone suffer sexual violence from Hades? Depending on how we analyse and interpret the Hymn to Demeter, we could answer: 1) Yes. 2) No. But whether we answer yes or no, the fact is that:

  1. Persephone was a highly respected, and sometimes feared*, goddess in Ancient Greece. There were different cults associated to her as the Eleusinian Mysteries, which had an incredible long lifespan. Also, she had roles as koutrophos, or child nurturer (Radcliffe), as an exacter of justice, and a mediator for a blessed afterlife (funerary epigrams and orphic tablets).
  2. As Aphrodite, Persephone was linked to the sphere of love (

    Sourvinou-Inwood 1991) and her marriage is shown as a happy-loving one in some versions (Ovid, Claudian, plus the iconography in vase or reliefs depictions of Hades and Persephone together where they are joined by Eros or many Erotes).

  3. Hades and Persephone were depicted as a most respectable and monogynous marriage (H. J. Rose, 1925). Their marriage was considered a sacred marriage or hieros gamos (Larsson, 

    Avagianou)

  4. At Lokri, a Greek colony in Southern Italy, Hades and Persephone served as a paradigm for the married couple and received dedications from girls about to marry (Foley 1994). Persephone had the role of being a protectress of marriage.
  5. The use of the myth as a literary paradigm for marriage in Attic tragedy indicates that the analogy was not confined to Greek Italy (Sourvinou-Inwood 1991).

So, even if we answered Yes to the B) question, we must consider that: i) myths are stories written in symbolic level and should not be taken literally. If sexual violence suggestions or actions take place, the myth is never meant to be an apologism of such actions by the Ancient Greeks.

In conclusion, no one is making historical inaccuracies, neither erasure or rape apologism by interpreting/re-interpreting the myth of Hades and Persephone as a healthy stable marriage. 

*coherent to Hades speech to Persephone in the lines 365-369 of the Hymn say “you will have power over all that lives and moves,  and you will possess the greatest honors among the gods.  There will be punishment forevermore for those wrongdoers  who fail to appease your power with sacrifices,  performing proper rites and making due offerings.” (translation by Foley).

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