Myths & Fables
Persephone T-shirt
The Persephone T-shirt is a Honeyman Tees print-on-demand tee from the Myths & Fables collection. The design shows a girl with long brown hair and a flower crown in a green gown, holding a split pomegranate and a sheaf of wheat, with a speech bubble beside her. Available on Etsy.
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About this design
A flower crown, a green gown and a split pomegranate.
The story behind it
In Greek myth, Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of grain, and she is carried off to the underworld. Because she eats pomegranate seeds there, she cannot stay above for the whole year, and the myth has long been told to explain why spring returns when she comes back to her mother. The seed count is not fixed: in the earliest full surviving telling, an ancient Greek hymn to Demeter, the king of the underworld slips her a single seed, Ovid's Metamorphoses says seven, and other tellings give other numbers.
Proposed colors: Natural
Mockups show the print at true scale on a size M tee. Colors are proposed, not final.
Where to buy
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