Demeter

=Demeter =

Demeter is the daughter of Cronos and Mother Earth. Demeter became intrested in the earth and earned herself the tilte the new Mother Earth. Her daughter, Persphone was very important to her. Hades, the King of Tartaros, fell in love with Persphone, beause of her beauty, but Demeter would have none of it. Zeus heled Hades in getting Persphone to the underworld by attracting her to a garden in sicily, where they set up a trap for the eath to gape open and a golden chariot to come out driven by Hades. Hades then took her to the underworld and Demeter was not happy and she looked for nine days and nine nights for her daughter and she eventually got to the town of Eleusis. In this town she made a fake identy and she helped a maden bring up a yound baby, named [|Demophon]. She fed him ambrosia and dipped him in fire, things that make immortality. Once Demephone's mother found out she got very mad and Demter told her true identy and had the people build a temple in her honor, and after this she was alon and missed Persphone more than ever. Demeter rufused to let the earth bring out her fruits and flowers until she saw her daughter again. At this, Zeus ordered Hades to bring Persphone back however, he did not want her gone forever. Hades forced Persphone to eat a seed of pomagrante, because if you eat in the underworld you cannot stay out forever, however she did not know that. Finnaly, Demeter got to see her beloved daughter, however Persphone had to go back to the underworld for one third of the year. At this time it is winter and everthing seems dead on earth, and that is the reason the greek's believed seasons happened.

Demeter is the goddes of grain, human fertility, the seasons and the harvest.



Relation The Lightning Thief

Demeter was never directly in the Lightning thief, however she has a cabin because she is one of the twelve olympian gods. She never has and never will have any kids, and her cabin is always empty.

Sources

Information

Riordan, Rick. The Lightning Thief. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

Rouse, WHD. Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece. New York: New American Library, 2001.

"Demeter" Wikipedia. September 15 ,2010 <[]>

Picture

Leighton, Frederic. "The Return of Perspephone". 1891. Sunsite.