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The actual Hellenic way to pronounce Persephone is not (pər-SEF-ə-nee) like most English speakers think. I'm uncertain what it is. But I know that Artemis is not (AHR-tə-mis) it's more similar to (AHR-tay-meez).

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This may help you some:
http://www.hellenicgods.org/pronunciationinhelleniclanguage

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It helped me a little but I'm still a little confused on Hellenic pronounciation. Not to mention Hellenic pronunciation may have changed some with time and depending one where you are in Greece. But from what a teacher told me this summer the eia ending is pronounced like (ay-ah). So my guess would be Persephoneia is (peer-SEEF-ohn-ay-ah). Also it seems like e's are sometimes ee and sometimes they are ay.

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This message was edited 10/3/2011, 8:00 PM

The first transliteration you posted, is more correct.

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/classical history major

I think it should be: per-se-FO-nyah.

Hey, you have the same name as me! :)

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I don't really know the proper pronunciation, but I would pronounce it the first way.