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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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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.1.5

• Hesiod: Theogeny 453

Domain

• Homeric Hymn 2.1
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• Homeric Hymn 13

• Apollodorus: 1.5.3

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Zeus -> Persephone: Hesiod: Theogeny 910

• Poseidon -> Arion and/or the Mistress: Pausanias 8.25.5, Pausanias 8.25.8, Pausanias 8.42.2, Apollodorus 3.7.1

• Iasion -> Plutus: Apollodorus 3.12.2, Hesiod: Theogeny 965, Homer: Odyssey 5.125

Other Encounters

• Hades (Pluto) and Persephone: Apollodorus 1.5.2, Pausanias 8.42.2, Homeric Hymn 2

• Triptolemus: Apollodorus 1.5.2, Pausanias 1.14.3

• Phytalus: Pausanias 1.37.2

• Pyrrhus: Pausanias 1.13.8

• Ascalaphus: Apollodorus 1.6.1, Apollodorus 2.6.1

• Orthopolis: Pausanias 2.5.8

Miscellaneous

• Image with horse head: Pausanias 8.42.4

Also see Demeter images.

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