![]() ĭemeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter, whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion. At first, they say, Demeter was angry at what had happened, but later on she laid aside her wrath and wished to bathe in the Ladon. So she turned, the story runs, into a mare, and grazed with the mares of Ogkios realising that he was outwitted, Poseidon changed into a stallion and enjoyed Demeter. "When Demeter was wandering in search of her daughter, she was followed, it is said, by Poseidon, who lusted after her. "Demeter bore this horse to Poseidon, after having sex with him in the likeness of an Erinys."Ĭallimachus, Fragment 207 (from Scholiast on Lycophron 1225) (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : In the Orphic myths Demeter and Zeus coupled in the guise of serpents. " ‘I loved the queen Demeter of the lovely tresses.’" "Also he came to the bed of all-nourishing Demeter, and she bare white-armed Persephone whom Aidoneus carried off from her mother but wise Zeus gave her to him." Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : "Khrysothemis of Krete, whose father Karmanor." "Karme, the daughter of Euboulos who was the son of Demeter." 3) KHRYSOTHEMIS Demi-goddess "The house of Karmanor in the city of Tarrha."ĭiodorus Siculus, Library of History 5. "The Kretans say (the story of Aphaia is Kretan) that Karmanor. See Demeter Loves: Iasion (this page) 2) EUBOULEUS Agricultural Demi-God KHRYSOTHEMIS ? (by Karmanor) (Pausanias 10.7.2 & 10.16.5)ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES FAMILY ON OLYMPUS (HOME OF THE GODS) EUBOULEUS ? (by Karmanor) (Pausanias 2.30.3) DESPOINE, AREION (by Poseidon) (Pausanias 8.25.5) DESPOINE (by Poseidon) (Callimachus Frag 652) KORYBAS (by Iasion) (Diodorus Siculus 5.48.2) PLOUTOS, PHILOMELOS (by Iasion) (Hyginus Astronomica 2.4) PLOUTOS (by Iasion) (Hesiod Theogony 969, Diodorus Siculus 5.48.2) PERSEPHONE (by Zeus) (Hesiod Theogony 912, Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, Apollodorus 1.29, Pausanias, Ovid Metamorphoses 5.501, Ovid Fasti 4.575, Nonnus Dionysiaca 5.562, et al) PLOUTOS (Plutus) The god of agicultural wealth. PHILOMELOS or BOOTES (Philomelus) The demi-god inventor of the wagon and ploughshare. Upon discovering her fate, she brought famine down upon the earth until Zeus agreed to her return. She was abducted to the Underworld by Haides Lord of the Dead, and Demeter searched relentlessly for her. PERSEPHONE The queen of the underworld, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. KORYBAS (Corybas) The leader of the Samothracian Korybantes. She was a daughter of Karmanor and Demeter. KHRYSOTHEMIS (Chrysothemis) A demi-goddess of the harvest festival. She was a daughter of Poseidon and Demeter.ĮUBOULEUS The demi-god of the ploughed earth. He was the offspring of Demeter who was raped by Poseidon in the guise of a horse.ĭESPOINE (Despoena) The goddess of certain Arkadian Mysteries. MEKON (Mecon) A man loved by the goddess Demeter who was metamorphosed into a poppy flower.ĪREION (Arion) An immortal horse owned by the hero Herakles and later Adrastos. She bore him a son Eubouleos and a daughter Khrysothemis. KARMANOR (Carmanor) A Lord of Tarrha on the island of Krete (Greek Aegean) who was loved by the goddess Demeter. She bore him twin sons, Ploutos and Philomelos. IASION A prince of the island of Samothrake or Krete (Greek Aegean) who lay with Demeter in a thrice ploughed field and was struck down by a thunderbolt by the jealous Zeus. From this union the goddess Persephone was born. ZEUS The king of the gods and Demeter mated in the form of intertwining serpents. She bore him two children-the horse Areion and the goddess Despoine. The goddess took the form of a horse and hid amongst the herds of Arkadian Onkios, where Poseidon found her ans assuming the form of a stallion raped the goddess. POSEIDON The god of the sea pursued Demeter when she was mourning the loss of her daughter Persephone. This page describes the family and consorts of the goddess including Zeus, Poseidon and the mortal Iasion. Paul Getty MuseumĭEMETER was the Olympian goddess of agriculture, grain and bread. Ceres Demeter and her son Plutus, Apulian red-figure loutrophoros C4th B.C., The J. ![]()
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