Demeter plaque 4th C. BCE
"White is fitting for Ceres: dress in white clothes for Ceres’
Festival: on this day no one wears dark-coloured thread."
-Ovid, Fasti: Book 4, April 12, The Games of Ceres
Demeter. Molded plaque, artist unknown; 4th cent. BCE. Probably from Tanagra, Boeotia; now in the Petit Palais, Paris. Photo credit: Thesupermat. |
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https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/OvidFastiBkFour.php
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