上游充通大学 Implications SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY Demeter's search for Persephone tells us: 1.Actual Greek marriage practices (contract); 2.Persephone marries her own uncle; 3.Marriage in Athens was“patrilocal..” 4.Human experience of death and separation. Olympians can't or don't go to Tartaros (Hermes, Hades) (God of the sun),Demeter like a human mother Zeus not pitied for man(gods'attitude to humans).Implications Demeter’s search for Persephone tells us: 1.Actual Greek marriage practices (contract); 2. Persephone marries her own uncle; 3. Marriage in Athens was “patrilocal.” 4. Human experience of death and separation. Olympians can’t or don’t go to Tartaros (Hermes, Hades) (God of the sun), Demeter like a human mother Zeus not pitied for man (gods’ attitude to humans)