Carpophori

The fruitbearers, a surname of Demeter and Kore, under which they were worshiped at Tegea.1 Demeter Carpophoros appears to have been worshiped in Paros also.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 53.3.
  2. Ross. Reisen auf den Griechische Inseln, i, p. 49.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.