Demo (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Demo (Ancient Greek: Δημώ) may refer to the following person:

  • Demo, an Eleusinian princess as the daughter of King Celeus and Metaneira. Together with her sisters Callidike, Cleisidike and Callithoe, she met the goddess Demeter at the virgin well Callichoros in Eleusis, who was resting there in the form of an old woman in search of her daughter Persephone, who was stolen by Hades, and invited her to her father's house.[1]
  • Demo, a Cumaean Sibyl whose oracles were unpreserved. A stone urn in the sanctuary of Apollo kept her bones. She could have been the Sibyl that led Aeneas. [2]
  • Demo, a name of Demeter.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Homeric Hymn to Demeter 109
  2. ^ Pausanias, 10.12.8
  3. ^ Suidas, s.v. Δεμώ

References

  • The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly (1873).
  • Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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