Ceres

Roman goddess of grain and the ploughed field, mother of Proserpina and sister of Jupiter and Pluto, identified with the Greek Demeter. Ovid's fifth book is her fullest witness — the rape of Proserpina, the search with torches lit at Aetna, the appeal to Jupiter, the divided year, Triptolemus's mission — and his eighth adds Erysichthon; Virgil calls her "law-bestowing Ceres" and names grain and bread her gift.