#locri

THE MAENAD: Small terracotta perfume container in the form of a Maenad, Possibly imported from Taranto, Discovered in Locri, Magna Graecia [modern Calabria, Ionian coast, Italy], Female tomb 934, C. 370-350 BC.

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Dioscuri from Locri Epizefiri

Right Dioscuros, west pediment sculptural complex, Marasà sanctuary ca. 450-400 BC. Greek civilization, Parian marble. Museo archeologico nazionale di Reggio Calabria, Italy

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Castor and Pollux (or Polydeuces), twin half-brothers (heteropaternal superfecundation) in Greek and Roman mythology, known together as Dioscuri or Dioskouroi Their mother was Leda, but they had different fathers; Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, while Pollux was the divine son of Zeus, who seduced Leda in the form of a swan. They are sometimes said to have been born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra.

Epizephyrian Locris (Locri Epizefiri) = Locris on (epi-) the west (Zephyrus, the west wind)

The last of the Greek colonies founded on the territory of present-day Calabria. One of the most culturally dazzling cities of Magna Graecia during the Greek Classical and Hellenistic periods and Plato described it as a city "governed by beautiful laws"

Vintage photos of Locri (Calabria, Italy) revived through AI colorization

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The primary goddess of marriage in Hellas was Hera and I think that the instances of Persephone taking precedence as the goddess of marriage were at localized cults, most prominently at Locri.

Also, what the Greeks viewed as an ideal marriage vs what we view as an ideal marriage are two very different things. Our most proliferate sources are from Athens, so I usually refer to their way of

Athens, let’s not forget, was a deeply misogynist city-state where a woman of status only left her house to be married or buried. Her primary functions were bearing children and weaving, regardless of social status, and she could not own property or inherit.

Persephone opens the chest containing Adonis pinax 490-450 BCE

"Because of his [the infant Adonis] beauty, Aphrodite secreted him away in a chest, keeping it from the Gods, and left him with Persephone. But when Persephone got a glimpse of Adonis, she refused to return him. When the matter was brought to Zeus for arbitration, he divided the year into three parts and decreed that Adonis would spend one third of the year by himself, one third with Persephone, and the rest with Aphrodite. But Adonis added his own portion to Aphrodite's."

-Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 184 - 185 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.)