god
Demeter
also: Δημήτηρ, Deo, Δηώ, Doso, Δωσώ
Goddess of grain and the harvest, mother of Persephone. Her grief and wrath at her daughter's abduction (Hymn 2) blights the earth with famine until Zeus intervenes; Hymn 13 hymns her briefly again.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §2.1 Demeter
Goddess of grain and the harvest, mother of Persephone. Her grief and wrath at her daughter's abduction (Hymn 2) blights the earth with famine until Zeus intervenes; Hymn 13 hymns her briefly again.
- The Odyssey §5.121 Demeter
Goddess of grain and the harvest. Calypso names her union with Iasion in the thrice-ploughed fallow — and Zeus's thunderbolt in answer — as her second proof that the gods resent a goddess taking a mortal to her bed.