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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 5188187, member: 99456&quot;][USER=103829]@Jochen1[/USER] - as always a pleasure to read your write-ups on mythology.&nbsp;&nbsp; I am generally curious about how Italian and Greek myths joined over time, so I will post this coin of Ceres / Demeter with Liber maybe a hint of Italian myth?&nbsp; And a note from Ovid that is equally Ceres and Demeter:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The goddess of all that is fertile (Ceres), fastened twin dragons to her chariot, curbing them with the bit, between their teeth, and was carried through the air, between heaven and earth. Reaching Eleusis, by Athens, city of Tritonian Minerva, she gave her swift chariot to Triptolemus, and ordered him to scatter the seeds she gave, partly in untilled soil, partly in fields reclaimed, after lying for a long time fallow.&quot; - Ovid Metamorphoses, <a href="https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph5.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph5.htm" rel="nofollow">Book V, 642-643</a>.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1213878[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>M. Volteius M.f.</b>, 75 BC, AR Denarius, Rome mint</p><p><b>Obv: </b>Head of Bacchus (or Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Ceres, standing in chariot, holding lighted torches, driving biga of snakes right; pileus to left</p><p><b>Ref: </b>Crawford <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-385.3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-385.3" rel="nofollow">385/3</a>; Sydenham 776; Volteia 3[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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