Ceres

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and agriculture; absurd as queen of the forest, which belongs to Diana.

• The Heroides §2 the torch-bearing goddess

  Ceres (Demeter), whose torch-lit Eleusinian mysteries are the 'mystic rites' Demophoon swore by.

• The Heroides §4 Ceres'

  Ceres (Demeter), goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, at whose festival Phaedra first saw Hippolytus.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.9 why does Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain and harvest, to whom the farmer sacrifices a pregnant sow for a fruitful crop.

• The Festivals §1 the cake of Ceres

  Ceres, corn-goddess; her cake (libum) and salted spelt (mola salsa) were offered to Janus.

• The Festivals §4.12 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and agriculture, who gave men bread and the plow; mother of Proserpina.

• The Festivals §6.9 Ceres

  Goddess of grain; her 'gifts' are the bread flung at the besieging Gauls.

• Ibis §9 Ceres

  Ceres (Demeter), at whose secret rite (the Thesmophoria) a maiden's death by javelins is darkly alluded to.

• Cosmetics for the Female Face §1 Ceres

  Roman goddess of grain and agriculture; "Ceres' gifts" are the cereal crops that cultivation coaxed from the once-barren ground.

• Metamorphoses §1.3 Ceres

  Goddess of grain and agriculture; 'the seeds of Ceres' are the first sown corn of the Silver Age.

• Metamorphoses §3.54 No care for Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain; 'care for Ceres' is appetite for food, which the love-struck Narcissus has lost.

• Metamorphoses §8.202 Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain, to whom Oeneus offered the first-fruits.

• Metamorphoses §8.230 Ceres's grove

  The sacred grove of Ceres that Erysichthon violated with the axe.

• Metamorphoses §8.231 oak of Deo

  Deo is a cult-title of Ceres; the bleeding oak is sacred to her.

• Metamorphoses §10.288 gift of Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain; 'the gift of Ceres' is bread, which the grieving Orpheus refuses.

• Metamorphoses §10.306 feast of Ceres

  Ceres, at whose nine-day women's festival the matrons abstained from men; Cenchreis's absence opens the way to the crime.

• Metamorphoses §13.415 the gifts of Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain; 'the gifts of Ceres' = bread.

• The Cure for Love §6 the seed of Ceres

  Ceres, goddess of grain and agriculture; 'the seed of Ceres' is the sown corn.