Ceres Facts for Kids

This page is about the goddess. For the dwarf planet, see Ceres (dwarf planet).

Quick facts for kids Ceres
Goddess of agriculture, fertility, grains, the harvest, motherhood, the earth, and cultivated crops
Seated Ceres from Emerita Augusta, present-day Mérida, Spain (National Museum of Roman Art, 1st century AD)
Planet	1 Ceres
Symbol	sickle, sheaf of wheat, cornucopia, cereal
Personal information
Children	Proserpina
Parents	Saturn and Ops
Siblings	Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Vesta, Pluto
Equivalents
Greek equivalent	Demeter
Japanese equivalent	Amaterasu

In Roman mythology, Ceres was the goddess of agriculture, especially the growing of grains and cereals, good fertility and motherly relationships. She was daughter of Saturn and mother of Proserpina. A statue of Ceres stands atop the Chicago Board of Trade Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Images for kids

Funerary statue of an unknown woman, depicted as Ceres holding wheat. Mid 3rd century AD. (Louvre)
Porcelain model of Ceres with cereals by Dominik Auliczek of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, late 18th century
Denarius picturing Quirinus on the obverse, and Ceres enthroned on the reverse, a commemoration by a moneyer in 56 BC of a Cerialia, perhaps her first ludi, presented by an earlier Gaius Memmius as aedile
A Greek fresco depicting the goddess Demeter, from Panticapaeum in the ancient Bosporan Kingdom (a client state of the Roman Empire), 1st century AD, Crimea.
A 3-storey faceless depiction of Ceres rests atop the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
Emperors celebrated imperial and divine partnerships in grain import and provision. On this sestertius of 66 AD, Nero's garlanded head is left. Opposite, a standing Annona holds cornucopiae (horns of Plenty) and enthroned Ceres holds grain-ears and torch. Between them on a garlanded altar, a modius (grain measure), and in the background, a ship's stern.
Ceres by Eugène-André Oudiné on a French coin of 1873 (3rd Republic).
Official seal of New Jersey. Ceres is the figure on the right. She symbolizes the "Prosperity" aspect of the state Motto. (In Heraldry blazons: "'Sinister' the bearer's own left of the escutcheon", in this case that of the Garden State's Signer [U.S. Constitution]- and first Governor- William Livingston. )