The mythology of Greece and Rome : with special references to its use in art (1900)
Seemann, Otto, 1825-1901, Bianchi, G. H. (George Henry) · New York : American Book · leaf 168
rowned with myrtle, and boretorches in their hands, as the procession started from Ath-ens at the earliest dawn. The festival of the Thesmophoria, which was celebratedat the beginning of November, in honor of Demeter in hercharacter of lawgiver and goddess of marriage, was less im-portant than the… … Fig. 44.—DemeLer Euthroned. Painting IVom Pompeii, Naples. 166 GREEK AND ROMAN MYTHOLOGY. Demeter, with whom, after the successful introduction ofher worship during the first years of the Republic, she wasentirely identified. The chief festival of Ceres and her associate deities,Liber and Libera,…
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