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aediles
Either of two (later four) Roman magistrates responsible for public buildings and originally also for the public games and the supply of corn to the city. The word comes (in the mid 16th century) ...
Aventine
The southernmost hill of Rome, overlooking the Tiber. Temples here included those dedicated to Diana and to Juno Regina. Until ad 49 the hill lay outside the pomerium. The temple of Ceres, Liber (see ...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome
The Roman goddess Ceres boasts a Latin name that suggestively connects her to generation (creare) and growth (
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The Oxford Companion to Chaucer
Roman goddess of corn, agriculture and plenty. In The Parliament of Fowls (276) Ceres, ‘who brings remedy for hunger’ sits
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
in Roman mythology, the corn goddess, the equivalent of the Greek Demeter.
In astronomy, Ceres is the name of the first asteroid to be discovered, found by ...
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Herbert Jennings Rose and John Scheid
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
an ancient Italo-Roman goddess of growth (her name derives from † ker- ‘growth’), commonly identified in antiquity with *...
Cernunnos
A horned Celtic god of Gaul (modern France) and parts of the British Isles, Cernunnos was a god of fertility, like the Italian goddess Ceres. He carries a club and ...
Cibella
A Phrygian goddess of nature and fertility. In The Legend of Good Women (F 531) she is said to have made the daisy and given it its white crown. (This ...
Demeter
In Greek mythology, the corn goddess, daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and mother of Persephone. She is associated with Cybele, and her symbol is an ear of corn. The Eleusinian mysteries were held in ...
Demeter and Persephone
A daughter of the early Greek gods Kronos and Rhea, Demeter (Ceres in Rome) was the goddess of crops and the fertile earth. By her brother and chief Olympian, Zeus ...
flamines
(sing. flāmen), Roman priests within the college of the pontifices. There were three major, twelve minor flamines, each of them assigned to the worship of a single deity, though this did not preclude ...
indigetes
‘invoked deities’. Both words, as well as the corresponding verb indigitare, are fairly common and there is no doubt that they mean respectively a class of Roman gods and a ...
Liber Pater
Italian god of fertility and esp. of wine, later commonly identified with Dionysus. He formed part of the Aventine triad, Ceres, Liber, and Libera, whose joint temple was founded in 493 bc, and ...
Lilybaeum
The westernmost point of Sicily, was the site of a fruitless attempt at colonization c.580 bc by Cnidians (see nibus) under Pentathlus (Diodorus Siculus 5. 9). A small Carthaginian settlement ...
lustration
Is the performance of lustrum, a ceremony of purification and of averting evil. The main ritual ingredient was a circular procession. The instruments of purification, such as torches and sacrificial ...
Mercury
In Roman mythology, the gods' messenger, corresponding to the Greek Hermes. At Lystra Paul was taken to be this god, who had a reputation for eloquence (Acts 14: 12).
mythology
[Ge]The study of religious or heroic legends and tales that seem incredible and which were created by particular communities as myths. One constant rule of mythology is that whatever happens amongst ...
plebs
The name given to the mass of Roman citizens, as distinct from the privileged patricians. Our sources maintain that in the early republic the plebeians were excluded from religious colleges, ...
religion, Italic
In a strict sense this concept refers to religions of various Indo-European tribes forming the Italic linguistic league, Umbrians, Sabello-Oscans (Sabines, Samnites, and a number of others such as ...
Roman mythology
As Greek mythology cannot be separated from its background of indigenous pre-Greek cultures, Roman mythology is intricately influenced by ancient Italic cultures, especially those of other Latin ...
