Demeter (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Demeter" in English language version.

Last modified: 10:02:04, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

Ref.Un. Ref.Website

Global rank English rank

3232tufts.edu

192^nd place

165^th place

2117books.google.com

3^rd place

1917perseus.org

2,141^st place

1,230^th place

1212topostext.org

2,055^th place

1,122^nd place

1211archive.org

6^th place

55uchicago.edu

226^th place

199^th place

44web.archive.org

1^st place

44virginia.edu

1,203^rd place

734^th place

43sacred-texts.com

1,277^th place

997^th place

42jstor.org

23^rd place

15^th place

42worldcat.org

4^th place

22deaditerranean.com

low place

22uio.no

2,380^th place

2,625^th place

22etymonline.com

669^th place

670^th place

22poetryintranslation.com

low place

21ehw.gr

6,887^th place

6,455^th place

11palaeolexicon.com

low place

11csun.edu

6,803^rd place

4,303^rd place

11britishmuseum.org

1,421^st place

1,087^th place

11umsystem.edu

low place

9,275^th place

11oapen.org

5,141^st place

3,278^th place

11doi.org

2^nd place

11ashmolean.org

low place

11cam.ac.uk

569^th place

354^th place

11uh.edu

4,344^th place

2,634^th place

11worldhistory.org

2,330^th place

1,976^th place

11britannica.com

37^th place

64^th place

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

Harrison, Jane Ellen (5 September 1908). "Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion". Cambridge [Eng.] : The University press – via Internet Archive.
Farnell, Lewis Richard (20 May 1907). "Cults Of The Greek States Vol.3" – via Internet Archive.
Farnell Cults III, 48–49 Farnell III,48
Farnell Cults III,30-31 Farnell III,30
John Ernest Leonard Oulton (1954). Alexandrian Christianity The Library Of Christian Classics; Volume II. Westminster Press. p. 48: And Pindar speaks of the Eleusinian mysteries as follows: "Blessed is he who has seen before he goes under the earth; for he knows the end of life and knows also its divine beginning."
Grimal, s.v. Cronus.
Proclus, Commentary on Plato's Cratylus 403 e (90, 28 Pasqu.) [=Orphic fr. 145 Kern; West 1983, p. 217.
Orphic frr. 400 I (I p. 334) [= fr. 41 Kern = Scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes, 3.467], 400 II (I p. 334) Bernabé [= fr. 42 Kern = Scholia on Theocritus, 2.12].
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.738–878; Callimachus, Hymn VI to Demeter 34 ff..
Kerenyi 1967, pp. 42-43. Kerenyi, Karl (1967). Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York City, New York: Pantheon Books.
Lycophron, Alexandra 152-155; Hyginus, Fabulae 83; Grimal, s.v. Pelops.

ashmolean.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

The Parian marble. Entry No 5: "When Amphictyon son of Hellen became king of Thermopylae brought together those living round the temple and named them Amphictyones;

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature. Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 314. ISBN 9780877790426.
The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought - Volume 2: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. Broadview Press. p. 643.
West 2007, p. 176: "The ∆α-, however, cannot be explained from Greek. But there is a Messapic Damatura or Damatira, and she need not be dismissed as borrowing from Greek; she matches the Illyrian Deipaturos both in the agglutination and in the transfer to the thematic declension (-os, -a). (It is noteworthy that sporadic examples of a thematically declined ∆ημήτρα are found in inscriptions.) Damater/Demeter could therefore be borrowing from Illyrian. An Illyrian Dā- may be derived from *Dʰǵʰ(e)m-"
Sheard, K. M. (2011). "Azesia". Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names. Llewellyn Publications. p. 86. ISBN 9780738723686. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
Roterodamus, Desiderius Erasmus (1992). Collected Works of Erasmus. Vol. 34. Translated by Mynors, R.A.B. University of Toronto Press. p. 36. ISBN 0802028314. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
Dietrich p. 169.
Dietrich, pp. 181–185.
Dietrich, p. 141.
Dietrich, pp. 189-190.
Cohen, A, Art in the Era of Alexander the Great: Paradigms of Manhood and Their Cultural Traditions, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 213. Google book preview
Cosmopoulos, Michael B. (2015). Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Cambridge University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-316-36823-7.
Sharma, Arvind (2005). Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition. BRILL. p. 47. ISBN 978-90-04-12466-0.
McKay, p. 93
Smith & Plantzos 2018, p. 409. Smith, Tyler Jo; Plantzos, Dimitris (18 June 2018). A Companion to Greek Art. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-8604-9.
Scholia ad Nicandri Alexipharmaca 375
J. Paul Getty Museum 1983, p. 31, especially note 58. J. Paul Getty Museum (1983). Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1. Malibu, California: Getty Publications. ISBN 0-89236-058-5. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
J. Paul Getty Museum 1983, p. 30. J. Paul Getty Museum (1983). Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1. Malibu, California: Getty Publications. ISBN 0-89236-058-5. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.

britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; English: 64^th place)

"Iasion". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2026.

britishmuseum.org (Global: 1,421^st place; English: 1,087^th place)

Anesidora: inscribed against her figure on a white-ground kylix in the British Museum, B.M. 1881,0528.1, from Nola, painted by the Tarquinia painter, ca 470–460 BC (British Museum on-line catalogue entry)

cam.ac.uk (Global: 569^th place; English: 354^th place)

data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

"Upper part of a caryatid: GR.1.1865". The Fitzwilliam Museum. The University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 September 2024.

csun.edu (Global: 6,803^rd place; English: 4,303^rd place)

Adams, John Paul, Mycenean divinities – List of handouts for California State University Classics 315. Retrieved 7 March 2011.

deaditerranean.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

minoan.deaditerranean.com

"da-ma-te". Deaditerranean. Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014. "PY 609 En (1)". minoan.deaditerranean.com. University of Oslo.
Inscription MY Oi 701."si-to-po-ti-ni-ja". minoan.deaditerranean.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014."The Linear B word si-to". minoan.deaditerranean.com. "MY 701 Oi (63)". /www2.hf.uio.no. University of Oslo. Cf. σῖτος, Σιτώ.

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Figueira, Thomas; Soares, Carmen, eds. (2020). "8, A goddess for the Greeks". Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus. Taylor & Francis. p. 186. doi:10.4324/9781315209081. ISBN 9781315209081.

ehw.gr (Global: 6,887^th place; English: 6,455^th place)

asiaminor.ehw.gr

Kore / Persephone. Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World: Asia Minor. http://asiaminor.ehw.gr/Forms/fLemmaBody.aspx?lemmaId=10541#noteendNote_11

etymonline.com (Global: 669^th place; English: 670^th place)

"mother | Origin and meaning of mother by Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com.
"demeter | Origin and meaning of the name demeter". Online Etymology Dictionary.

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

MORELLI, DONATO (1959). "Parte Prima: FONTI". Studi Classici e Orientali. 8: 1–73. ISSN 0081-6124. JSTOR 24172474.
Keller, Mara Lynn (1988). "The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone: Fertility, Sexuality, and Rebirth". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 4 (1): 27–54. ISSN 8755-4178. JSTOR 25002068.

oapen.org (Global: 5,141^st place; English: 3,278^th place)

library.oapen.org

Figueira, Thomas; Soares, Carmen, eds. (2020). "8, A goddess for the Greeks". Ethnicity and Identity in Herodotus. Taylor & Francis. p. 186. doi:10.4324/9781315209081. ISBN 9781315209081.

palaeolexicon.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Inscription MY Oi 701."si-to-po-ti-ni-ja". minoan.deaditerranean.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014."The Linear B word si-to". minoan.deaditerranean.com. "MY 701 Oi (63)". /www2.hf.uio.no. University of Oslo. Cf. σῖτος, Σιτώ.

perseus.org (Global: 2,141^st place; English: 1,230^th place)

data.perseus.org

Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow, eds. The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization. OUP Oxford, 2014; Pausanias, 8.42.1–4.
Pausainias, 8.42.7.
Hesiod Works and Days, 465
Pausanias|8.42.1–4
Pausanias 8.15.3
Pausanias, 7.27.9.
Pausanias, 8.28.5–7.
Pausanias, 8.42.1.
Homer, Odyssey 5.125; Hesiod, Theogony 969–974.
Gantz, p. 64; Hesiod, Theogony 912–914.
Tripp, s.v. Arion or Areion, p. 101; Pausanias, 8.25.7.
Morford, p. 339; Hesiod, Theogony 969—974.
Hesiod, Theogony 969—974; Gantz, p. 64; Tripp, s.v. Iasion; Oxford Classical Dictionary, s.v. Iasion.
"In Arcadia, she was also a second goddess in the Mysteries of her daughter, the unnameable, who was invoked only as 'Despoina', the 'Mistress'" (Kerényi 1967, pp. 31ff., citing Pausanias, 8.37.9.
According to Homer, Iliad 1.570–579, 14.338, Odyssey 8.312, Hephaestus was apparently the son of Hera and Zeus, see Gantz, p. 74.
According to Homer, Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus (Iliad 3.374, 20.105; Odyssey 8.308, 320) and Dione (Iliad 5.370–71), see Gantz, pp. 99–100.

scaife.perseus.org

Scholia on Pindar's Olympian Odes 13.74

poetryintranslation.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Apuleius, The Golden Ass 5.28-31
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 6.1-4

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277^th place; English: 997^th place)

"Myths of Greece and Rome: Demeter and Persephone (Ceres and Proserpine)". sacred-texts.com.
"Martin Nilsson, The Greek popular religion, The religion of Eleusis, pp 51–54". Sacred-texts.com.
Martin Nilsson, Greek Popular Religion. pp 48–50

topostext.org (Global: 2,055^th place; English: 1,122^nd place)

Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Philomelus (1); Hyginus, De astronomia 2.4.7.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.509
Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks 2.11; Grimal, s.v. Baubo.
Smith, s.v. Iasion; Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.421
Hyginus, De astronomia 2.14.4
Hyginus, Fabulae 141
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.446-461; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 24; Tripp, s.v. Ascalabus.
Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 24.
Hyginus, De astronomia 2.14.2.
Hyginus, De astronomia 2.4.7; Grimal, s.v. Philomelus, p. 366.
Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Transformations 3
Lycophron, Alexandra 152-155; Hyginus, Fabulae 83; Grimal, s.v. Pelops.

tufts.edu (Global: 192^nd place; English: 165^th place)

perseus.tufts.edu

Δηώ
Σιτώ. Cf. σῖτος. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
Δᾶ in Liddell and Scott.
Δημήτηρ. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
"Homer, Iliad, Book 5, line 493". www.perseus.tufts.edu.
Iliad 9.534
"Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ζείδωρος". www.perseus.tufts.edu.
"Sophocles, Antigone, line 1115". www.perseus.tufts.edu.
Isocrates, Panegyricus 4.28: "When Demeter came to our land, in her wandering after the rape of Kore, and, being moved to kindness towards our ancestors by services which may not be told save to her initiates, gave these two gifts, the greatest in the world – the fruits of the earth, which have enabled us to rise above the life of the beasts, and the holy rite, which inspires in those who partake of it sweeter hopes regarding both the end of life and all eternity".
χλόη in Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Jones, Sir Henry Stuart, with the assistance of McKenzie, Roderick. Oxford: Clarendon Press. In the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University.
Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Chloeia
Homeric Hymn 2 To Demeter
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Rharias
Hesiod, Theogony 912; Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2).
Smith, s.v. Mecon; Servius on Virgil's Georgics 1.212
Smith, s.v. Demeter; Diodorus Siculus, 3.62.5; Scholiast on Pindar, Pythian Odes 3.177^{[non-primary source needed]}.
Smith, s.v. Iasion; Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.421
Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.738–878; Callimachus, Hymn VI to Demeter 34 ff..
"Louvre S 1677 (Vase)". www.perseus.tufts.edu. Tufts University. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
Apollodorus, 1.5.3.
Apollodorus, 2.5.12.
Strabo, Geographica 8.3.14.
Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.35.4
Pausanias, 8.15.3.
Pausanias, 8.15.4.
Pausanias, 1.37.2; Grimal, s.v. Phytalus, p. 373.
Pausanias, 2.5.8.
Pausanias, 2.11.2.
Pausanias, 9.39.5; Grimal, s.v. Trophonius, pp. 459–460.
According to Hesiod, Theogony 927–929, Hephaestus was produced by Hera alone, with no father, see Gantz, p. 74.
According to Hesiod's Theogony 886–890, of Zeus's children by his seven wives, Athena was the first to be conceived, but the last to be born; Zeus impregnated Metis then swallowed her, later Zeus himself gave birth to Athena "from his head", see Gantz, pp. 51–52, 83–84.
According to Hesiod, Theogony 183–200, Aphrodite was born from Uranus's severed genitals, see Gantz, pp. 99–100.

uchicago.edu (Global: 226^th place; English: 199^th place)

penelope.uchicago.edu

Diodorus Siculus, Book III.
Smith, s.v. Demeter; Diodorus Siculus, 3.62.5; Scholiast on Pindar, Pythian Odes 3.177^{[non-primary source needed]}.
Diodorus Siculus, 5.76.3.
Siculus, Diodorus (1939). "The Library of History, Book V, 47-84". penelope.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 10 June 2024.
Oppian, Halieutica 3.485 ff

uh.edu (Global: 4,344^th place; English: 2,634^th place)

"HOMERIC HYMN TO DEMETER". www.uh.edu.

uio.no (Global: 2,380^th place; English: 2,625^th place)

www2.hf.uio.no

"da-ma-te". Deaditerranean. Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014. "PY 609 En (1)". minoan.deaditerranean.com. University of Oslo.
Inscription MY Oi 701."si-to-po-ti-ni-ja". minoan.deaditerranean.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014."The Linear B word si-to". minoan.deaditerranean.com. "MY 701 Oi (63)". /www2.hf.uio.no. University of Oslo. Cf. σῖτος, Σιτώ.

umsystem.edu (Global: low place; English: 9,275^th place)

mospace.umsystem.edu

Raubitschek-Jane Biers, in MVSE vol. 31–32 (1997–1998), 53. MVSE (1997–1998), 53

virginia.edu (Global: 1,203^rd place; English: 734^th place)

ovid.lib.virginia.edu

Ovid, Metamorphoses (Book V, ln. 533–571)
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.446-461; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 24; Tripp, s.v. Ascalabus.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 10.728
Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.642-678

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

"da-ma-te". Deaditerranean. Minoan Linear A & Mycenaean Linear B. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014. "PY 609 En (1)". minoan.deaditerranean.com. University of Oslo.
Inscription MY Oi 701."si-to-po-ti-ni-ja". minoan.deaditerranean.com. Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2014."The Linear B word si-to". minoan.deaditerranean.com. "MY 701 Oi (63)". /www2.hf.uio.no. University of Oslo. Cf. σῖτος, Σιτώ.
J. Paul Getty Museum 1983, p. 31, especially note 58. J. Paul Getty Museum (1983). Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1. Malibu, California: Getty Publications. ISBN 0-89236-058-5. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.
J. Paul Getty Museum 1983, p. 30. J. Paul Getty Museum (1983). Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Vol. 1. Malibu, California: Getty Publications. ISBN 0-89236-058-5. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2023.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

search.worldcat.org

MORELLI, DONATO (1959). "Parte Prima: FONTI". Studi Classici e Orientali. 8: 1–73. ISSN 0081-6124. JSTOR 24172474.
Keller, Mara Lynn (1988). "The Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone: Fertility, Sexuality, and Rebirth". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 4 (1): 27–54. ISSN 8755-4178. JSTOR 25002068.

worldhistory.org (Global: 2,330^th place; English: 1,976^th place)

"The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Rites of Demeter". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 27 April 2019.

Demeter (English Wikipedia)

archive.org (Global: 6th place; English: 6th place)

ashmolean.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

books.google.com (Global: 3rd place; English: 3rd place)

britannica.com (Global: 37th place; English: 64th place)

britishmuseum.org (Global: 1,421st place; English: 1,087th place)

cam.ac.uk (Global: 569th place; English: 354th place)

data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

csun.edu (Global: 6,803rd place; English: 4,303rd place)

deaditerranean.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

minoan.deaditerranean.com

doi.org (Global: 2nd place; English: 2nd place)

ehw.gr (Global: 6,887th place; English: 6,455th place)

asiaminor.ehw.gr

etymonline.com (Global: 669th place; English: 670th place)

jstor.org (Global: 23rd place; English: 15th place)

oapen.org (Global: 5,141st place; English: 3,278th place)

library.oapen.org

palaeolexicon.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

perseus.org (Global: 2,141st place; English: 1,230th place)

data.perseus.org

scaife.perseus.org

poetryintranslation.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277th place; English: 997th place)

topostext.org (Global: 2,055th place; English: 1,122nd place)

tufts.edu (Global: 192nd place; English: 165th place)

perseus.tufts.edu

uchicago.edu (Global: 226th place; English: 199th place)

penelope.uchicago.edu

uh.edu (Global: 4,344th place; English: 2,634th place)

uio.no (Global: 2,380th place; English: 2,625th place)

www2.hf.uio.no

umsystem.edu (Global: low place; English: 9,275th place)

mospace.umsystem.edu

virginia.edu (Global: 1,203rd place; English: 734th place)

ovid.lib.virginia.edu

web.archive.org (Global: 1st place; English: 1st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4th place; English: 4th place)

search.worldcat.org

worldhistory.org (Global: 2,330th place; English: 1,976th place)

archive.org (Global: 6^th place; English: 6^th place)

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

britannica.com (Global: 37^th place; English: 64^th place)

britishmuseum.org (Global: 1,421^st place; English: 1,087^th place)

cam.ac.uk (Global: 569^th place; English: 354^th place)

csun.edu (Global: 6,803^rd place; English: 4,303^rd place)

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

ehw.gr (Global: 6,887^th place; English: 6,455^th place)

etymonline.com (Global: 669^th place; English: 670^th place)

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

oapen.org (Global: 5,141^st place; English: 3,278^th place)

perseus.org (Global: 2,141^st place; English: 1,230^th place)

sacred-texts.com (Global: 1,277^th place; English: 997^th place)

topostext.org (Global: 2,055^th place; English: 1,122^nd place)

tufts.edu (Global: 192^nd place; English: 165^th place)

uchicago.edu (Global: 226^th place; English: 199^th place)

uh.edu (Global: 4,344^th place; English: 2,634^th place)

uio.no (Global: 2,380^th place; English: 2,625^th place)

umsystem.edu (Global: low place; English: 9,275^th place)

virginia.edu (Global: 1,203^rd place; English: 734^th place)

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

worldhistory.org (Global: 2,330^th place; English: 1,976^th place)