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Kore|ˈkɔəreɪ|
Also 9 Cora, Core.
[Gr. κόρη, = maiden.]
1. In Greek mythology, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, known as Persephone when she married Hades.
1844L. Schmitz in W. Smith Dict. Gr. & Roman Biogr. & Mythol. I. 852/1 Core..the maiden, a name by which Persephone is often called. 1849Ibid. III. 204/2 In the mysteries of Eleusis, the return of Cora from the lower world was regarded as the symbol of immortality. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 824/1 Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core). 1916E. Pound Lustra 18 Korè is seen in the North Skirting the blue-gray sea. 1930― XXX Cantos xvii. 79 Koré through the bright meadow, with green-gray dust in the grass. 1968Encycl. Brit. XVII. 644/2 One of the variants of the name Persephone is..a form with a pre-Hellenic suffix that suggests that she was a pre-Hellenic deity..a goddess of the dead. If this is so, her connection with Demeter came later, when she was identified with Kore (the Greek word for ‘maiden’)..daughter of Demeter; Demeter and Kore were the leading goddesses in the Eleusinian mysteries.
2. Gr. Sculpture. (Often with lower-case initial.) A statue of a draped maiden.
1920Q. Rev. July 28 There are, in our Archaic Room, good examples both of the Kore and her male companion the Kouros. 1934Burlington Mag. Jan. 46/1 The archaic bronzes include..an Ionian kore..and a warrior. 1950H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments vi. 356 This arrangement can be plainly seen on a Kore from the Acropolis. 1971Ashmolean Mus. Rep. of Visitors 1970 18 A terracotta scent vase in the form of a standing kore, Rhodian, late 6th century b.c. |