Persephone
Who is Persephone Married too?
Hades
Cupid Relates to which Holiday?
Valentines Day
When is Valentines day?
February 14th
Persephone is the daughter of....
Demeter
Cupid was in love with who?
Psyche
What do people do to celebrate?
Dinner, gifts and the kids pass out cards to the friends they love
What does Demeter control and how does it relate to Persephone?
It is a Myth that Demeter controls the seasons and Fall/Winter is when Persephone is with Hades and Spring/Summer is when she is with Demeter.
Cupids arrows do 2 things...
Golden arrows to make people fall in love and leaden arrows to make people fall out of love.
What poet wrote a poem that linked this day with love
Geoffrey Chaucer
Persephone is also known as....
Kore or Kora
Who was jealous of Psyche and what did they do?
Venus (mother) was jealous of Psyches beauty and she shot her with an arrow that would make her fall in love with the most horrifying being in the entire world
What significance happened in the 18th century?
Sending romantic love cards became popular
Persephone is the Goddess of what?
She was a duel deity. She is both the Goddess of vegetation and fertility.
The Myth of Cupid and Psyche was first written by who
Apuleius in the 2nd century.
85% of ______ are purchased by women and 73% of _____ are purchased by men.
73%: flowers