Demo (daughter of Keleos)

Demo ( ancient Greek Δημώ ) is a daughter of King Keleos of Eleusis and Metaneira in Greek mythology . Together with her sisters Kallidike , Kleisidike and Kallithoe she meets the goddess Demeter at the virgin fountain of Eleusis, who is resting there in the form of an old woman in search of her daughter Persephone , who was stolen by Hades , and invites her to her father's house.

swell

• Homeric Hymn to Demeter 110

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Demo 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 986 ( digitized version ).
• Otto Jessen : Demo 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, column 2862 ( digitized version ).