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Demeter's absence caused the death of crops, livestock, and eventually of the people who depended on them (later Arcadian tradition held that it was both her rage at Poseidon and her loss of her daughter caused the famine, merging the two myths). [27] Demeter washed away her anger in the River Ladon, becoming Demeter Lousia, the "bathed Demeter ...
Peter Demeter (/ ˈ d ɛ m ə t ər /; born 19 April 1933) is a Hungarian-born Canadian former real estate developer convicted in 1974 of arranging the murder of his wife.It was the longest trial in Canadian history to that date, and revealed that both husband and wife may have been plotting to murder the other to collect a CA$1 million (equivalent to $6 million in 2023) insurance policy.
Forestalled in making Demophon immortal, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus (Demophon's elder brother) the art of agriculture; from him the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops. He flew across the land on a dragon -drawn chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of ...
Demeter and Metanira, detail of an Apulian red-figure hydria, Antikensammlung Berlin (1984.46) In Greek mythology, Metanira (/ ˌ m ɛ t ə ˈ n aɪ r ə /; Ancient Greek: Μετάνειρα Metáneira) or Meganira [1] was a queen of Eleusis as wife of King Celeus. She was the daughter of Amphictyon, the king of Athens. [2]
Celeus (/ ˈ s iː l i ə s / SEE-lee-əs) or Keleus (Ancient Greek: Κελεός, romanized: Keleós) was the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology, husband of Metaneira and father of several daughters, who are called Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, [1] and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias.
Afterwards, Demeter gave birth to the talking horse Arion and the goddess Despoina ("the mistress"), a goddess of the Arcadian mysteries. [56] In the Orphic "Rhapsodic Theogony" (first century BC/AD), [57] Persephone is described as the daughter of Zeus and Rhea. Zeus was filled with desire for his mother, Rhea, intending to marry her.
Plutus is most commonly the son of Demeter [1] and Iasion, [2] with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field. He is alternatively the son of the fortune goddess Tyche. [3]Two ancient depictions of Plutus, one of him as a little boy standing with a cornucopia before Demeter, and another inside the cornucopia being handed to Demeter by a goddess rising out of the earth, perhaps implying that he ...
In Greek mythology, Demophon / ˈ d ɛ m ə f ɒ n,-f ə n / (Ancient Greek: Δημοφῶν or Δημοφόων) was a veteran of the Trojan War and king of Athens.The son of Theseus and Phaedra, Demophon was raised in exile by a family friend after his father was deposed.