n.
In Roman religion , the goddess of the growth of food plants, sometimes worshiped in association with the earth goddess Tellus.
Her cult was overlaid by that of Demeter , who was worshiped in Greece and Sicily. According to tradition, her cult was introduced into Rome in 496 BC to check a famine. Her temple on Aventine Hill was known as a centre of plebeian religious and political activities and for its artwork.
Ceres, Classical sculpture; in the Vatican Museum.
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