god
Persephone
also: Φερσεφόνα
Queen of the dead; her 'blue-dark chamber' receives the girl Timas in the epitaph AP 7.489 — death as the wedding that preempts the wedding.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §ap-7-489 Persephone
Queen of the dead; her 'blue-dark chamber' receives the unmarried girl as a bride — the bitter old Greek figure of death as the wedding that preempts the wedding.