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Nero, 13 October 54 - 9 June 68 A.D., Hierapolis, Phrygia, The Rape of Persephone
Beautiful Persephone lived a peaceful life far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. She was innocently picking flowers when Hades, god of the Underworld, burst through a cleft in the earth and abducted her. While Demeter searched desperately for her daughter she neglected the earth and caused nothing to grow. Zeus, pressed by the cries of hungry people, determined to force Hades to return Persephone. However, Hades had tricked Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds, and because anyone who consumed food or drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there, she is forced return to the underworld for a period each year. Explaining the seasons, when Demeter and her daughter are reunited, the Earth flourishes with vegetation and color, but for the months each year when Persephone returns to the underworld, the earth becomes barren.SH62529. Bronze AE 19, RPC I 2982, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, BMC Phrygia -, Weber -, VF, edges flaking, Phrygia, Hierapolis (near Pamukkale, Turkey) mint, weight 4.493g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 0o, c. 55 A.D.; obverse KAIΣAP NEPΩN, bare-headed, draped bust right; reverse MAΓYTHΣ NEΩTEPOΣ IEPAΠOΛEITΩN, Hades (Pluto) standing left in biga, horses leaping right, carrying away protesting Persephone; very rare; SOLD
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