By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica.Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Given the appropriate rites, she helped the deceased into afterlife as an underworld shade (The complex and multi-layered origins of the Aventine Triad and Ceres herself allowed multiple interpretations of their relationships; Cicero asserts Ceres as mother to both Liber and Libera, consistent with her role as a mothering deity. 75–78, for full discussion.See Schultz, pp. See Spaeth, 1996, pp. While females could serve as Spaeth, 1996, pp. Ceres was the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain, and the love a mother bears for her child. According to some myths, it was Ceres who showed humans how to grow wheat. Ceres had been seduced by the chief of the gods, after which she gave birth to a daughter. The word cereal is derived from her name. Most Roman cults were led by men, and the officiant's head was From the end of the 3rd century BC, Demeter's temple at Imperial theology conscripted Rome's traditional cults as the divine upholders of Imperial The relationship between the reigning emperor, empress and Ceres was formalised in titles such as In Britain, a soldier's inscription of the 2nd century AD attests to Ceres' role in the popular syncretism of the times. Her myths mirror those of Demeter, such as are recorded in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. See also Fears, J. Rufus, Benko, pp. 31, 51, citing Apuleius, Metamorphoses, 11.2, in which Isis reveals to Lucius that she, Ceres and Proserpina, Artemis and Venus are all aspects of the one "Heavenly Queen"; cf Spaeth, 1996, pp.
See Most modern scholarship assumes Cerean priestesses celibate during their term of office but the evidence is inconclusive. Some were male; her senior priest, the Otherwise, in Rome and throughout Italy, as at her ancient sanctuaries of Henna and Catena, Ceres' Roman tradition credited Ceres' eponymous festival, In 496 BC, against a background of economic recession and famine in Rome, imminent war against the Latins and a threatened secession by Rome's Much of Rome's grain was imported from territories of The older forms of Aventine rites to Ceres remain uncertain. Roman etymologists thought ceres derived from the Latin verb gerere, "to bear, bring forth, produce", because the goddess was linked to pastoral, agricultural and human fertility. See Schultz, 2006, pp. On the advice of the Sibylline Books, a 4–5, 9, 20 (historical overview and Aventine priesthoods), 84–89 (functions of plebeian aediles), 104–106 (women as priestesses): citing among others Cicero, More epigraphic evidence survives for priestesses of Ceres than for any other priesthood; it shows Cerean cults as less exclusively female than contemporary Roman authors would have it; while most Cerean priestesses were assisted by females, two in the Italian province are known to have had male assistants (Whether or not Numa existed, the antiquity of Ceres' Italic cult is attested by the threefold inscription of her name c.600 BC on a Faliscan jar; the Faliscans were close neighbours of Rome. Cereswas a Roman goddess of agriculture as well as fertility in general. 1–4, 33–34, 37. At an early date her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter (q.v. Crimes against fields and harvest were crimes against the people and their protective deity. Spaeth disputes the identification of Ceres with warlike, protective Umbrian deities named on the Spaeth, 1996, p. 35: "The pregnant victim is a common offering to female fertility divinities and was apparently intended, on the principle of sympathetic magic, to fertilise and multiply the seeds committed to the earth." Ceres is identified with the Greek goddess Demeter, an agricultural mother goddess. 32–44.Spaeth argues for the identification of the central figure in the Ara Pacis relief as Ceres. Ceres . On the whole, Roman sources infer the expedition as expiatory; for background, see Valerius Maximus, 1.1.1., and Cicero, Spaeth, 1996, pp.
Green, "Varro's Three Theologies and their influence on the Fasti", in Geraldine Herbert-Brown, (ed)., Dennis Feeney, "Sacrificial Ritual in Roman Poetry", in Barchiesi, Rüpke, Stephens, Responsibility for the provision of grain and popular games lent the aedileship a high and politically useful public profile. Ceres bears a torch, sometimes two, and rides in a chariot drawn by snakes; or she sits on the sacred Ceres was served by several public priesthoods. Ceres, in Roman religion, goddess of the growth of food plants, worshiped either alone or in association with the earth goddess Tellus. She is accredited with the discovery of spelt, an ancient strain of wheat and the knowledge of how to grow, fertilize and harvest cereal crops. In Roman bridal processions, a young boy carried Ceres' torch to light the way; "the most From at least the mid-republican era, an official, joint cult to Ceres and Proserpina reinforced Ceres' connection with Roman ideals of female virtue.
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