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Persephone is one of Coriolanus’s classmates; she’s assigned to mentor Mizzen during the Hunger Games. Though Persephone is gorgeous and nice, Coriolanus avoids her—he once witnessed her father, Nero Price, saw the leg off of a maid who’d died. It’s unclear if Persephone knows she engaged in cannibalism, but Coriolanus judges and avoids her for this crime.
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Persephone Price Character Timeline in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The timeline below shows where the character Persephone Price appears in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
Coriolanus is so exhausted he can’t think straight. On his way home, he bumps into Persephone Price, daughter of cannibal Nero Price. Persephone talks on about Arachne as Coriolanus tries to...
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Chapter 20
...then moves Coral and Circ’s bodies to lie with the others. When Mizzen mimes eating, Persephone orders food for him.
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...looks thrilled—until Treech leaps out and splits her skull. Urban stalks off the stage, while Persephone allows Lepidus to interview her. Coriolanus, Clemensia, and Vipsania—the final three mentors—arrange their chairs in...
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