The Roman Goddess Ceres by Barbette Stanley Spaeth

Spaeth, Barbette Stanley, The Roman goddess Ceres, University of Texas Press, 1996. By the time of the Middle Republic, Ceres became more Hellenized and was then attributed to Demeter. In ancient Roman mythology and religion, Ceres was a goddess of.

Additionally, Ceres was assigned a flamen, or an ancient high priest dedicated to the cult of Ceres, whose worship revolved around Ceres as an agricultural fertility goddess. The Roman goddess Ceres / Barbette Stanley Spaeth. The Goddess Ceres in the Ara Pacis Augustae and the Carthage Relief. Evidence for her worship in Rome dates back as far as the Regal period where her festival, Cerialia, was noted on the Pre-Julian Calendar which was associated with King Numa. In this thematic study of the Roman goddess Ceres, Barbette Spaeth explores the rich complexity of meanings and functions that grew up around the goddess from the prehistoric period to the Late. The twin horse gods : the dioskouroi in mythologies of the ancient world / Henry John Walker.-book. Barbette Stanley Spaeth has research interests in Roman religion, witchcraft in. An inscribed brass tablet from 250 B.C.E was found in this region which detailed a complex ritual held in a ‘sacred grove of Ceres’ along with 17 other deities with epithets ending in ‘cerealis’. Ceres has also been linked to other ancient Italic divinites who were worshiped by the Osco-Umbrians or Sabellian-Umbrians who lived in the southern regions of Italy. which reads, “Let Ceres give grain.” This urn was found in a necropolis and contained the dialect used by Faliscans, an ancient people that lived north of Rome. The oldest inscription of Ceres can be found on an urn from 600 B.C.E.

The Roman Goddess Ceres by Barbette Stanley Spaeth