Pluto, Persephone, and Mercury

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“Mercury was sent, accompanied by Spring, to demand Persephone of Pluto. The wily monarch consented, but, alas! the maiden had taken a pomegranate which Pluto offered her, and had sucked the sweet pulp from a few of the seeds. This was enough to prevent her complete release, by which she was to pass half the time with her mother, and the rest with her husband Pluto.” —Bulfinch, 1897

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Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable (Philadelphia: Henry altemus Company, 1897) 70

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