[6] The “ἀνθολογία” of Persephone is a feature in most of the accounts of the rape. It may have been introduced as a natural girlish act, and so have no mythological importance; see parallels in Preller-Robert i.^{2} p. 758 n. 2. On the other hand, flowers play a considerable part in ritual connected with deities of vegetation, so that the “ἀνθολογία” may be paralleled by festivals such as the “ἠροσάνθεια” (Hesych.), at which Peloponnesian women gathered flowers. There was an actual “ἀνθολογία” in the mysteries at Agra; see Svoronos p. 235.
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The Homeric Hymns, edited, with preface, apparatus criticus, notes, and appendices. Thomas W. Allen. E. E. Sikes. London. Macmillan. 1904.
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