Persephone (disambiguation)

Persephone is a Greek goddess. Her Roman equivalent is Proserpina.

Persephone may also refer to:

Given name

• Persephone Borrow, English immunologist
• Persephone Swales-Dawson (born 1997), British television actress

Science

Planetary science

• 399 Persephone, an asteroid
• A conjectured name for a planet beyond Neptune and Pluto (see also #Science fiction, below)
• As such, an early proposed name for Eris (dwarf planet) and Charon (moon)
• As such, a proposed name for Planet Nine
• Persephone (spacecraft), a proposed orbiter mission to the Pluto system as a follow-up to New Horizons

Zoology

• Anthophorula persephone, an extinct species of bee
• Rhadine persephone, a species of beetle
• Betta persephone, a species of betta fish
• Chazara persephone, a species of butterfly
• Papilio persephone, former name for the butterflies Acraea egina and Erebia pluto
• Prodryas persephone, an extinct species of butterfly
• Aeshna persephone, a species of dragonfly
• Eumillipes persephone, a species of millipede
• Arctia persephone, former name for the Apantesis anna moth
• Catoptria persephone, a species of moth
• Eilema persephone, a species of moth
• Hypercompe persephone, a species of moth
• Stygioides persephone, a species of moth
• Opisthoteuthis persephone, a species of octopus
• Confuga persephone, a species of planthopper
• Petrogale persephone, a species of rock-wallaby
• Volutomitra persephone, a species of sea snail
• Amphisbaena persephone, a species of worm lizard

Media

Fictional characters

• Persephone (The Matrix), a fictional character in the Matrix film trilogy
• Persephone or Rachel Blake, a character in The Lost Experience
• Persephone, a character in Jeff Noon's novel Pollen
• Persephone, a character in Stripperella
• Persephone, the Goddess of Life in the computer game Sacrifice
• Persephone, a character in Herc's Adventures
• Persephone "Sephy" Hadley, main character in the Noughts & Crosses series of novels by Malorie Blackman
• Persephone, an Amazon in the 2009 Wonder Woman film
• Persephone, the daughter of Admiral Lockwood, and object of Commander Kydd's affections, in the book The Admiral's Daughter
• Persephone, a Fairy character who sells upgrades in the Activision computer game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
• Persephone "Persie" Towyn, sister of Lady Agnes Holland in the BBC TV Series Upstairs Downstairs
• Persephone, a nickname of Eo of Lykos from Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

Science fiction

• The name of a planet beyond Pluto in several science fiction works (see #Astronomy above)
• Persephone, a planet in the television series Firefly

Music

• Persephone (instrument), an electronic fingerboard synthesizer
• Perséphone (Stravinsky), a 1934 musical work by Stravinsky
• Persefone, a metal band from Andorra
• "Persephone", a song by Dead Can Dance from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
• "Persephone", a song by Cocteau Twins from Treasure
• "Persephone", a song by Wishbone Ash from There's the Rub
• "Persephone", a song by Opeth from Sorceress
• "Perséphone", a song by Year of No Light from Ausserwelt

Artworks

• Persephone (painting), a 1939 painting by Thomas Hart Benton
• Persephone (sculpture), a sculpture by Armand Toussaint

Other uses

• Persephone (tugboat), a salvage ship in The Beachcombers
• Persephone Books, a British publisher
• Persephone Painter (ca. 475 to 425 BCE), the pseudonym of an ancient Attic Greek vase painter

See also

• Persephone in popular culture
• Persophone, a speaker of the Persian language
• Persephone (given name)
• Proserpina (disambiguation)