Demeter holding snakes and wheat 5th-3rd C. BCE

"Ceres was first to summon men to a better diet,
Replacing their acorns with more nourishing food.
She forced bulls to bow their necks to the yoke:
So the deep-ploughed soil first saw the light.
Copper was prized then, iron was still hidden:
Ah! If only it could have been hidden forever."

-Ovid, Fasti: Book 4, April 12, The Games of Ceres

Demeter with snakes and wheat 440 BCE.

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Quote:

https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php