[ noun ] (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina <noun.person>
Her first volume of poetry, "Persephone," was published in 1961.
By contrast Kokoschka turned to Hades for a subject and worked on a vast Rubensian triptych embracing Persephone, Prometheus and the Apocalypse, designed for the ceiling of a house in Exhibition Road, Kensington.
The performances made a strong case for the latter reading. The composer of Persephone was never happy with it.
The solo tenor in the role of Eumolpus was John Aler, effective and unflashily rhetorical; the Persephone was Laurence Bouvard, who delivered the lines with an easy fluency which by-passed all the usual problems of making melodrama work.