Demeter Collection

Persephone & Demeter
Persephone (Proserpina) is reunited for the Spring and Summer with her mother Demeter (Ceres) until each Autumn and Winter, when she must return to her husband Pluto (Hades)

Parthenon. East Pediment. Acropolis, Athens. 438-432 BC. Bri
Parthenon. East Pediment. Helioss horses and Dionysos, Demeter and Kore, Artemis. Acropolis, Athens. 438-432 BC. Marble. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

The Eleusinian Mysteries, initiations for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at Eleusis, Greece. The goddess Ceres sits on the Puteal on the Callirhoe well surrounded by dancing virgins

Depiction of a Roman Bacchanal or Bacchanalia
Depiction of a Roman Bacchanal from a sculpture on a labrum in the Pio Clementino Museum. Five Fauns with horns and tails and five Bacchantes in Spartan tunics dance. Baccanali

Title page vignette of goddess of agriculture
Title page with vignette of Demeter goddess of agriculture with scythe amid statuary in a park. Engraving by Pillement finished by Nee after a painting by Percier

DEMETER / CERES
Demeter / Ceres, and Dionysos / Bacchus, depicted on an onyx vase owned by Ferdinand Albrecht, herzog von Braunschweig-Luneberg. (one of two) Date: BCE

Ceres - Demeter Crane 1889
Ceres (Demeter), a symbol of harvest time. Date: 1906

OFFERINGS TO CERES
Roman ladies deck a statue of Ceres with flowers

ROMAN CELEBRATION / VIRGIL
Dancing in honour of CERES (Demeter), the goddess of agriculture. On Ceres let him call & Ceres praise, With uncouth dances & with country lays. Date: First published: 29 BC

September. Goddess Demeter
Demeter, mother of Persephone, the Greek goddess of harvest, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1903

Taurobolium Altar. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. G
Taurobolium Altar (360-370) with relief depicting the goddess Cybele enthroned with Demeter (right) flanked by Persephone Kore and Iacchus. Probably from Chalandri. National Archaeological Museum

GREEK ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. Bust of Demeter, III-II cent
GREEK ART. REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA. Bust of Demeter, Greek goddess of agriculture. III-I centuries B.C. Ruins of Butrint Museum

Greek art. About 420 BC. Demeter and Persephone. Glyptothek
Greek art. Votive relief. About 420 BC. Demeter and Persephone. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany

Goddess Demeter. Marble. 4th century BC
Goddess Demeter. Bust. Marble. 4th century BC. Kerch Historical and Archaeological Museum. Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Ukraine

Demeter. Goddess of the harvest. Sculpture. Museum of Eleusis. Greece

Cinerary urn with reliefs depicting Heracles (Hercules) beginning in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Detail. White marble. From the columbarium near Porta Maggiore

April. Persephone
Persephone, daughter of Zeus & Demeter, the beautiful Greek goddess of Spring. Artist: Sydney Carter Date: 1903

The relief from Eleusis. ca. 440 - 430 BC. Votive relief depicting the Eleusinian deities. Depiction of Persephone (right side)

Boy into Lizard
Demeter, desperately seeking her abducted daughter, gets thirsty : the boy Stellio mocks her for drinking so quickly, so of course she turns him into a lizard

Ceres & the Satyrs
Mother Ceres (Demeter) asks two satyrs if they have seen her daughter Persephone (Proserpina). But Pluto (Hades) has taken her to the underworld until the Spring

Classical Myth / Rhea
Mother of the Gods, daughter of Uranus and Gaea, sister/wife of Kronos, mother of Zeus, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, Demeter and Hestia

Month of April C18Th
This month is honoured by a wreath of myrtle and burnt incense given as offerings to the goddess Ceres

Roman Celebration / Virgil
Dancing in honour of CERES (Demeter), the goddess of agriculture. " On Ceres let him call & Ceres praise, With uncouth dances & with country lays"

Mosaic of Demeter / Ceres
Mosaic portrait

Classical Myth / Demeter
Classical Myth/Demeter

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