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Persephone, Queen of the Dead Chapter 1 Persephone     My birth name is Kore, but modern readers may only know me by the name Persephone; the name my husband gave to me on our wedding day many long centuries ago.  You see I am the consort of Hades, the God of the Underworld, known by some as the Queen of the Dead.  Throughout the centuries since I took my place within the Underworld, at my husband’s side, I have heard many tales of how my uncle, the God Hades, kidnapped me while I was picking flowers with the daughter of Oceanos, the Sea Nymphs, one bright, sunny day; how as I screamed and struggled with all my might, he seized me an