You may also opt to contribute to the poem’s afterlife by creating your own creative reflection of some elements of the poem.
You may focus on the ancient context of the hymn within the important Eleusinian Mysteries or on a moment of the poem’s afterlife. Working individually or collaboratively, please reflect on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Other aspects of the Hymn, including the nurturing of the baby by fire and the hilarity of Iambe also have resonances (ancient and modern), but are, perhaps, more obscure and less well-understood. Boticelli’s Madonna della Melagrana, Rita Dove’s Motherlove, “The Fertile Goddess” place setting in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, Equinox by Alison Saar at the Pomona College Benton Museum of Art, are only a few examples. The bond between mother and child, the ripe symbolism of the pomegranate seed, the marriage of Persephone and Hades - some elements of this story seem to permeate art and imagination across time and space. The identities, experiences, and symbolism represented in the The Homeric Hymn to Demeter not only reflect ancient realities but have also inspired re-imaginings in myriad places and times, from antiquity through Christianity, into contemporary media (and social media). Reflections of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
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