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Demeter is the giver of grain. She is also known as Ceres (Roman) and sometimes Deo. Her attributes in iconography can include a torch, a crown, a sceptre, and stalks of grain. She is often portrayed with her daughter, Persephone/Kore.

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Demeter and Kore: Large image, 50% image
  Relief, Archaic, AS

• Athene, Hera, and Demeter: Large image, 50% image
  Delphi, ca 525 BC, AS

• Demeter: Overview, Detail
  Info, Late Archaic

• Departure of Triptolemos: Image
  Makron Painter, ca 490-480 BC, MM

• Persephone, Triptolemus, and Demeter: Large image, 50% image
  Eleusis, votive relief, 2nd half 4th ca BC, MM

• Demeter gives grain to Triptolemos: Overview, Detail
  Info, Classical

• Demeter: Large image, 50% image
  Classical, ca 438-432 BC, AS

• Demeter, Persephone, and Triptolemos: Image: Slow to load
  Relief from Eleusis, ca 440-430 BC. NMA

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Coin: Reverse
  Info, Late Classical

• Coin: Obverse
  Info, Late Classical, Hellenistic

Also see Demeter texts.

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