Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Canonical name
Ceres
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Simile

In the threshing-floor simile, yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift chaff from grain.

See evidence text
“while yellow Ceres blows with the wind to sift the chaff from the grain, and the chaff-heaps grow whiter and whiter”
·Remembered

Jove recalls queen Ceres among the goddesses for whom he had felt passion.

See evidence text
“There was queen Ceres again, and lovely Leto, and yourself—but with none of these was I ever so much enamoured as I now am with you.”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Direct
“Ceres”
·Direct
“eats the grain of Ceres”
·Remembered
“queen Ceres”

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 55

And those that held Phylace and the flowery meadows of Pyrasus, sanctuary of Ceres; Iton, the mother of sheep; Antrum upon the sea, and Pteleum that lies upon the grass lands. Of these brave Protesilaus had been captain while he was yet alive, but he was now lying under the earth. He had left a wife behind him in Phylace to tear her cheeks in sorrow, and his house was only half finished, for he was slain by a Dardanian warrior while leaping foremost of the Achaeans upon the soil of Troy. Still, though his people mourned their chieftain, they were not without a leader, for Podarces, of the race of Mars, marshalled them; he was son of Iphiclus, rich in sheep, who was the son of Phylacus, and he was own brother to Protesilaus, only younger, Protesilaus being at once the elder and the more valiant. So the people were not without a leader, though they mourned him whom they had lost. With him there came forty ships.