Demeter and Persephone
Subtitle: Homeric hymn number two.
By: Translated and adapted by Penelope Proddow. Illustrated by Barbara Cooney.
Contributors: Cooney, Barbara, 1917- illus.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Homeric hymns -- Juvenile literature; Demeter (Greek deity) -- Juvenile literature; Persephone (Greek deity) -- Juvenile literature; Hymns, Greek (Classical) -- Translations into English; Demeter (Greek deity); Persephone (Greek deity); Mythology, Greek
Other titles: Hymn to Demeter.
Description: Demeter grieves when her daughter Persephone is carried off by Hades to his underworld kingdom and punishes the world until an agreement is made to share the girl.