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Relief depicting the rapt of Persephone by Hades. Emerging from the earth, the god of the underworld and underground forces, Hades, kidnaps his niece, Persephone, with whom he is in love. Found at the Roman Villa of Chiragan, France. Early Roman Empire. (Musée des Antiques de Toulouse)
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