Demeter was one of the oldest gods in the ancient Greek pantheon. Demeter was a goddess of agriculture and guaranteed the fertility of the earth. She protected both farming and vegetation. The close connection with the earth was inherited from Demeter's mother Rhea. Demeter was probably a reincarnation of local mother Earth goddesses worshipped in rural communities in Bronze Age Greece.
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Timeline
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c. 1500 BCEFirst temple to Demeter & Persephone is built at Eleusis.
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c. 700 BCEGreek poet Hesiod writes his Theogony and Works and Days.
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700 BCE - 600 BCETemples are built in honour of Apollo, Demeter and Dionysos on the island of Naxos.
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c. 600 BCEThe Eleusinian Mysteries become part of the official Athenian religious calendar.
