Men’s T-Shirt “Persephone”

• 100% cotton, 200g/m²

• Available in sizes from S to 5XL

• No side seams

• Print applied using Direct-to-Film (DTF) method

Fun Fact:
Persephone, also known as Kore, meaning “the maiden,” was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Her story is told in several ancient sources, the oldest and most significant being the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (7th–6th century BCE).

According to this text, Persephone was abducted by Hades while picking flowers in the valley of Nysa. Interestingly, the name Nysa refers not to a local place near Silesia, but likely to a symbolic or mythic land in Boeotia or southern Thessaly—central Greece. After the abduction, Demeter, the goddess of fertility and Persephone’s mother, fell into mourning, and her grief brought a halt to all vegetation and growth. The hymn describes how Demeter wandered the earth for nine days, fasting and holding torches in her hands—an echo of the Eleusinian rituals in which women reenacted this mournful search.