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Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4. 15. 1 (trans. Oldfather) (Greek historian C1st B.C.)
"The Gigantes about Pallene chose to begin war against the immortals . . . [and] Zeus gave the name of Olympian only to those gods who had fought by his side, in order that the courageous, by being adorned by so honourable a title, might be distinguished by this designation from the coward; and of those who were born of mortal women he considered only Dionysos and Herakles worthy of this name."
Demeter was given the title of Olympian by Zeus for fighting in the Giant War; of her part in it - in ancient Greek vase painting Demeter was sometimes depicted battling one of the Gigantes in their war against the gods.
She is shown wielding either a sword (no doubt the khrysaor or golden sword described in her Homeric epithet Khrysaoros - the Lady of the Golden Sword), or else a spear in one hand and a flaming torch in the other.
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