Unit 1 

: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WRITING DEVELOPMENT

A. Match the words with the names: PLUTO PROSERPINA CERES ZEUS
The Godess of fertility and harvest - King of Gods - daughter - The King of the underworld

A B C D

…………………… ……………………… ………………………. ………………………

…………………… …………………….... ………………………. ……………………….
B. Complete the phrases on the right with the words in the circle.
1. Ruler of the ………………………………
Pick underworld 2. ………………………. flowers.
Drag search 3. ……………….. down into the underworld.
Riding dry up 4. The earth …………………………………...
Make 5. ………………………………. a chariot.
6. ……………………………….. a deal.

C. Put the events in order.

a. Pluto abducted Proserpina.
Order 1 2 3 4 5
b. Proserpina was picking flowers
Events
c. Ceres rushed to help her
d. Proserpina screamed
e. Pluto saw Proserpina and fall in love with her.
D. Using the information from the previous activities, fill in the story.
The Story of Pluto and Proserpine
(adapted from www.mythman.com)

Ceres (Demeter) was the Goddess of ……………………… and …………………….. . Her daughter,
Proserpina was her only child from …………………………………., the king of the gods.
One day, as Proserpina was picking flowers with her friends, Pluto, …………………………………
……………………… and ruler of the dead saw her and fell madly in love with her.
…………………………………………………… pulled by four black horses, Pluto grabbed Proserpina
and ……………………. her down into the …………………………………………. with him.
Hearing her daughter’s scream, …………………………………….. rushed to help her, but she was
too late. Ceres searched the entire earth for her daughter. Once she realized that Pluto had abducted
Proserpina, she became angry and caused the earth to …………………………. , and the harvests to fail.
Jupiter ( Zeus ) saw from the heavens that the earth was infertile and dead. He decided to intervene, and
eventually a ………………………….. was made: Proserpina would spend half of the year with her
mother and half of the year in the underworld with Pluto.
According to this myth, Ceres is so sad while Proserpine is in the underworld that she withdraws her
gifts from the world and winter comes. In the spring, when Proserpina rejoins her mother,
………………………. makes things grow again.