Demeter
by CTCWeb Editors
Associated Items and Beings
A god or goddess alone is inadequately defined since the people, beings, animals and things associate with a god or goddess say a lot about them. Through visual aids and texts, students can learn about the whole god or goddess by the items, people, beings, animals and things that accompany them or that are used in the exploits.
Below are citations for selected vases, coins, sculpture and text that demonstrate and explain the people, beings, animals and things associated with Demeter. Each representative citation has been selected for its image clarity and description.
People
Persephone
Parthenon, East Pediment Demeter with Kore. Eleusis, Kallichoron Well. London E 183. Apollodorus Note 1.5.1.a. Apollodorus 1.5.1. Apollodorus 1.5.3. Pausanias 1.14.1. Pausanias 1.39.1. Pausanias 9.25.5. Pausanias 9.31.9.
Triptolemos
Harvard 1959.187. London E 183. RISD 25.083. Apollodorus 1.5.2. Pausanias 1.14.1. Pausanias 2.14.3. Xenophon, Hellenica 6.3.6.
Celeus
Apollodorus 1.5.1. Apollodorus 1.5.2. Pausanias 2.14.3.
Iasion
Hesiod Theogony 970. Homer Odyssey 5.125.
Animals
Horse Pausanias 8.25.7.
Pindar Pythian Ode 7.4.
Things
Grain/Crops
Harvard 1959.187.
Dewing 1932.
Dewing 380.
Apollodorus 1.5.2.
Apollodorus Note 3.14.7.
Herodotus 1.193.3
Hesiod Theogony 970.
Hesiod Works and Days 31.
Hesiod Works and Days 300.
Hesiod Works and Days 465.
Hesiod Works and Days 599.
Homer Iliad 5.500.
Homer Odyssey 5.125.
Plato, Cratylus 404b.
Underworld
Apollodorus 1.5.3.
Herodotus 2.123.2
Pausanias 3.14.5.
Torch
Athens, Agora I 7154 (Pan Cave Relief).
Apollodorus 1.5.1.
Pausanias 4.17.1.
Plutarch Alcibiades 22.3.
Strabo, The Geography, 10.3.10.
