(Image: The Rape of Persephone, Greek fresco from Macedonian tomb circa 400 B.C., Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai)
PERSEPHONE
Draft Outline for an Opera Libretto in Three Acts
by Judith Barnes
Dramatis Personae:
PERSEPHONE, daughter of DEMETER and ZEUS, Goddess of Spring
DEMETER, Goddess of the Earth, Harvest, and Fertility, mother of PERSEPHONE, sister of ZEUS and HADES
ZEUS, God of the…