Demeter's Grove

Demeter's Grove, or Demeter's Sacred Grove, was a sacred grove belonging to the Greek goddess Demeter. Located in Thessaly, it was populated by thousands of large oak, beech, and olive tree dryads. It was also the birthplace of the goddess Persephone, as well as the location of her capture by Hades.
When building his royal palace, the Thessalonian king Erysichthon cut down the majority, if not all, of the dryad trees in the grove. Since then, the grove was never officially reestablished and a barren, empty land occupies the site of where it once was.
==History==
===First Planting===
The first dryad trees were planted by Demeter shortly following her and the Olympians' victory over the Titans in the First Titanomachy. It was then that Demeter personally planted the Large Oak, which was a massive dryad tree at the center of the grove, and would later become very beloved by Demeter herself as a sacred place.
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