god
Ceres
Goddess of grain and the harvest, mistress of the Eleusinian Mysteries; her daughter Proserpina was carried off to the underworld.
Reading notes
- Hercules (Mad) §298 mistress of the grain
Ceres, goddess of harvest and of the Eleusinian rites.
- Hercules on Oeta §599 corn-bearing goddess
Ceres (Demeter), goddess of grain and the Eleusinian Mysteries.
- Oedipus §28 Ceres
Goddess of grain and harvest, here denying her fruit as the crops die.
- The Phoenician Women §217 Ceres
Goddess of grain and harvest; 'grain-bearing Ceres' stands for the crops and the cultivated earth.