Demeter was portrayed fighting the Giants in vase paintings, where she was depicted wielding a spear and torch or a sword. This was undoubtedly the golden sword described in the Homeric Hymn to ...

Cowed by Zeus’ authority, the other gods stayed silent. And so, Demeter lit her torches from the volcanic fires of Mount Etna, saddled twin dragons to her chariot, and searched alone.

A: Apollo, with kithara on platform, and Marsyas, seated on rock, Artemis or kore with torches and woman with sceptre and diadem (Rhea, Leto or Demeter?) both seated, youth (Olympos?) reclining, pipes ...