Various local traditions place Persephone's abduction in different locations. The Sicilians, among whom her worship was probably introduced by the Corinthian and Megarian colonists, believed that Hades found her in the meadows near Enna, and that a well arose on the spot where he descended with her into the lower world. The Cretans thought that their own island had been the scene of the abduction, and the Eleusinians mentioned the Nysian plain in Boeotia, and said that Persephone had descended with Hades into the lower world at the entrance of the western Oceanus. Later accounts place the abduction in Attica, near Athens, or near Eleusis. The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion (or Mysion) which was probably a mythical place. The location of this mythical place may simply be a convention to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past.
Various local traditions place Persephone's abduction in different locations The Sicilians among whom her worship was probably introduced by the Corinthian and Megarian colonists believed that Hades found her in the meadows near Enna and that a well arose on the spot where he descended with her into the lower world The Cretans thought that their own island had been the scene of the abduction and the Eleusinians mentioned the Nysian plain in Boeotia and said that Persephone had descended with Hades into the lower world at the entrance of the western Oceanus Later accounts place the abduction in Attica near Athens or near Eleusis The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion (or Mysion) which was probably a mythical place The location of this mythical place may simply be a convention to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past