RA Collection: People and Organisations
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over grains and the fertility of the earth. Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a religious tradition that predated the Olympian pantheon, and which may have its roots in the Mycenaean period c. 1400–1200 BC.Demeter was often considered to be the same figure as the Anatolian goddess Cybele, and in Rome she was identified as the Latin goddess Ceres
James Christie the younger
Disquisitions Upon The Greek Vases, And Their Probable Connection With The Shows Of The Eleusinian And Other Mysteries. By James Christie, A Member Of The Society Of Dilettanti. - London:: 1825.
05/2141
Edward Daniel Clarke
Testimonies of different authors, respecting the colossal statue of Ceres, placed in the vestibule of the public library at Cambridge, July the first, 1803 : with a short account of its removal from Eleusis, November 22, 1801 - Cambridge: 1803
12/4071