the goddess Ceres. A scene of maidens picking flowers appears before Proserpine is forced into Pluto’s chariot before a female figure waits to welcome the pair at the gate of the underworld ...

The religious class of the Celtic Druids thought this site to be sacred to the goddess Sulis and that it was a special place where men could communicate with the underworld. When the Roman Legion ...

What was discovered in Flagstaff, Arizona, and killed off in Prague? If you answered "Pluto's planethood," your grasp of the ...

Named for the Roman goddess of the maternal ... Persephone by death daddy Hades — who took his new bride to the underworld. In her devastation at the loss of her daughter, Ceres ceased the ...

But, except for Hades, who preferred his underworld domain ... his identity had merged with the more serious Roman god Jupiter. And this new Zeus/Jupiter was to become the supremely just, powerful ...