I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, holy goddess, of her and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Hades seized; and thundering, far-seeing Zeus gave her away,

The daughter is not named. Through the whole first part of the hymn she is kourē, "the girl," and only later Persephone. The poem calls Hades Aidōneus, a lengthened form of his name that epic uses for the god of the dead. The second crime matters as much as the first. Dōken, "he gave," is the verb for giving a bride. Zeus is her father, and he has handed her to his brother without asking her mother. Demeter's grief, which stops the crops in the rest of the poem, is aimed at him.