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Author: I. M. Richardson

📘 Demeter and Persephone, the seasons of time by I. M. Richardson

Hades, the god of the dead, falls in love with Persephone, the maiden of spring, and steals her from her mother Demeter to be his bride and queen of the underworld.

First publish date: 1983

Authors: I. M. Richardson

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