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In Greek mythology Damia is a goddess of the fertile earth, also seen as one of Horae, or seasons in Argos. Here she was paired with Auxesia (goddess of spring growth), with the two being seen as Cretan maidens who were worshipped as goddesses after they were wrongfully stoned to death. The pair were worshipped on the island of Aegina and at Epidaurus. Two olive wood images of the goddesses were honoured at the former place.^[1]. They were also revered at Troezen, where they was a festival in their honour called the Stoning. ^[2] The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the telling of stories created by the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and their own cult and ritual practices. ... Horae in Meyers, 1888 In Greek mythology, the Horae were three goddesses controlling orderly life. ... Coordinates 37°37′ N 22°43′ E Country Greece Periphery Peloponnese Prefecture Argolis Province Argos Population 29,505 Area 5. ... Dêmêtêr (or Demetra) (DEH-MEH-ter) (mother-goddess or perhaps distribution-mother) is the Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure nourisher of youth and the green earth, the health-giving cycle of life and death, and preserver of marriage and the sacred law. ... Crete, sometimes spelled Krete (Greek Κρήτη / Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest in the Mediterranean Sea. ... Coordinates 37°45′ N 23°26′ E Country Greece Periphery Attica Prefecture Piraeus Population 13,552 source (2001) Area 87. ... Panoramic view of the theater at Epidaurus Epidaurus (Epidauros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece at the Saronic Gulf. ... Troezen (TREE-zun) is a city in Argolis located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana. ...

Damia is one of the titles of Demeter, as goddess of the fertile earth, with Auxesia being a title of Persephone, as goddess of spring growth.^[3] Ceres (Demeter), allegory of August: detail of a fresco by Cosimo Tura, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 1469-70 Demeter was a god of the ancient greeks. ... Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874) (Tate Gallery, London In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Persephónē) was the Queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter— and Zeus, in the Olympian version. ...

References

1. ^ Herodotus, Histories, 5.82.1
2. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.32.2; 2.34 [1]
3. ^ Suidas, Azesia