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==Name==
In a [[Linear B]] [[Mycenaean Greek]] inscription on a tablet found at [[Pylos]] dated 1400–1200 BC, [[John Chadwick]] reconstructed{{efn|The actual word in [[Linear B]] is {{lang|gmy|{{script|Linb|𐀟𐀩𐁚}}}}, ''pe-re-*82'' or ''pe-re-swa''; it is found on the [[Pylos|PY]] Tn 316 tablet.<ref>{{cite web |title=pe-re-*82 |work=Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B |last=Raymoure |first=K.A. |publisher=Deaditerranean |url=http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/pe/pe-re-82/ |access-date=19 March 2014 |archive-date=5 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705083930/http://minoan.deaditerranean.com/resources/linear-b-sign-groups/pe/pe-re-82/ }} {{cite web |title=PY 316 Tn (44) |website=DĀMOS: Database of Mycenaean at Oslo |publisher=[[University of Oslo]] |url=https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/Index/item/chosen_item_id/4985 |access-date=19 March 2014 |archive-date=14 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314010920/https://www2.hf.uio.no/damos/Index/item/chosen_item_id/4985 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} the name of a goddess, ''*Preswa'', who could be identified with [[Perse (mythology)|Perse]], daughter of [[Oceanus]], and found speculative the further identification with the first element of Persephone.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chadwick |first=John |author-link=John Chadwick |year=1976 |title=The Mycenaean World |location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-29037-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RMj7M_tGaNMC&pg=PA95 |page=95 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=10 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210100756/https://books.google.com/books?id=RMj7M_tGaNMC&pg=PA95 |url-status=live }} At Google Books.</ref>{{efn|Comments about the goddess ''pe-re-*82'' of [[Pylos]] tablet Tn 316, tentatively reconstructed as ''*Preswa''
:"It is tempting to see ... the classical Perse ... daughter of [[Oceanus]] ... ; whether it may be further identified with the first element of Persephone is only speculative."<ref>[[John Chadwick]]. ''Documents in Mycenean Greek''. Second Edition</ref>}} ''Persephonē'' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Περσεφόνη}}) is her name in the [[Ionic Greek]] of [[Epic poetry|epic]] literature. The Homeric form of her name is ''Persephoneia'' ({{lang|grc|Περσεφονεία}},<ref name="Homer1899">{{cite book |author=[[Homer]] |title=Odyssey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-ZDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP230 |access-date=31 March 2014 |year=1899 |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=230}}</ref> ''Persephoneia''). In other dialects, she was known under variant names: ''Persephassa'' ({{lang|grc|Περσεφάσσα}}), ''Persephatta'' ({{lang|grc|Περσεφάττα}}), or simply ''Korē'' ({{lang|grc|Κόρη}}, "girl, maiden").<ref>H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon''</ref> On 5th century Attic vases one often encounters the form ({{lang|grc|Φερρϖφάττα}}) [[Plato]] calls her ''Pherepapha'' ({{math|{{lang|grc|Φερέπαφα}}}}) in his [[Cratylus (dialogue)|''Cratylus'']], "because she is wise and touches that which is in motion". There are also the forms ''Periphona'' ({{
The etymology of the word 'Persephone' is obscure. According to a recent hypothesis advanced by Rudolf Wachter, the first element in the name (''Perso''- ({{lang|grc|Περσο-}}) may well reflect a very rare term, attested in the [[Rig Veda]] (Sanskrit ''parṣa-''), and the [[Avesta]], meaning 'sheaf of corn' / 'ear [of grain]'. The second constituent, ''phatta'', preserved in the form ''Persephatta'' ({{lang|grc|Περσεφάττα}}), would in this view reflect [[Proto-Indo-European]] ''{{PIE|*-gʷn-t-ih}}'', from the root ''{{PIE|*gʷʰen-}}'' "to strike / beat / kill". The combined sense would therefore be "she who beats the ears of corn", i.e., a "thresher of grain".<ref>[[Jan Bremmer|Jan N. Bremmer]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=5I_HDwAAQBAJ&dq=Etymological+Dictionary+of+Greek%2B+Beekes%2BPersephone&pg=PA74 ''The World of Greek Religion and Mythology:Collected Essays II,''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230210100804/https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_of_Greek_Religion_and_Mytholog/5I_HDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Etymological+Dictionary+of+Greek%2B+Beekes%2BPersephone&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover |date=10 February 2023 }} [[Mohr Siebeck]] 2019 {{isbn|978-3-161-54451-4}} p.75.</ref><ref>[[Robert S. P. Beekes|Beekes, R.S.P.]], (2009), ''Etymological Dictionary of Greek'', [[Brill Publishers|Brill]], vol.2, pp.1179–80.</ref>
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