Ceres Searching for Proserpina

Digitised using an Artec Eva. This figurative work depicts Ceres, in a popular narrative from early Roman religion. Ceres (Demeter) is the mother of Prosperina, who was abducted by the god of the Underworld (Hades) under the permission of her father Zeus. Ceres, when she found out her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with Hecate's torches. In most versions of the story, Ceres forbids the earth to produce, neglecting the earth and in the depth of despair causes noth