Demeter (Ceres)

Demeter is the Greek goddess of earth and harvest.

Most writers do not mention any punishment for Demeter, when she had unwittingly eaten a peace of Pelops. Tantalus, who had served the flesh of Pelops as a dinner course, was instead severely punished. Google Tantalos to find out more.

They are all major Olympians.

The Ancient Greek Gods were often shown as having exaggerated human-like personalities - they were often bitter and vengeful. One version of the myth of Demeter involves her ruining the peoples' harvest, and desolating the land. This lead to starvation, sorrow, etc. She essentially did this because she was upset and angry - therefore I would not consider her very nice.

She does restore the world to its previous condition in the end - but she still requires tribute before a good harvest will be provided. But, she definitely loved her daughter (Persephone), so perhaps she had some redeeming qualities.

Demeter mourns her daughters lose every year, and winter comes to the earth.

Persephone must go between the realm of Hades and the earth every year.

Hades either must await Persephone or is with her.

The kidnapping was witnessed by the shepherd Eumolpus and the swineherd Eubuleus; I do not know if they told Demeter this.

No, she was the goddess of the harvest.

Demeter is the goddess of the harvest and agriculture, who presided over grains and the fertility of the earth.

He fears that humankind will die out from lack of food

He made several sea creatures including the horse

Ceres

The Romans didn't have a Demeter per say, however they did have the Goddess of Grain and Agriculture, in the same manner as Demeter was for the Greeks.

It explained the seasons. After Hades stole persephone and made her his bride, he kept her in the underworld and in that time, Demeter was depressed so she gave the Greeks bad harvest, and with Persephone being in the underworld, no flowers could grow. This explained winter. During summer and spring, demeter and Persephone were re-united, so flowers bloomed on earth again, and the people's crops were revived.

Demeter is the goddess of harvest. Her daughter Persephone is the goddess of flowers. Hegemone was a goddess of flowering and bearing fruit. Additionally there were plant spirits such as the nymphs.

Demeter was the goddess of Agriculture and was typically linked with cereal grains such as wheat. Persephone was the goddess of spring-time and wasn't linked with food as much as she was with flowers.

Her daughter Persephone. Persephone ate pomegranate seeds in the underworld after hades captured her and so she is doomed there for 3 months every year now. That is why we have winter. Demeter is too sad to carry on the winter to have anyone have crops or grains

Demeter goddess of crops and harvest. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades. Demeter went looking for her, mourning her loss. Demeter forgot to mind the growth, nothing grew (winter). A compromise was reached - Persephone was allowed to rejoin her mother for half the year (=growth period).

Persephone was promised to Hades as his bride by Zeus, Persephone's father. He did this without informing Demeter or Persephone.

Hades arose from the Underworld to claim is bride, thus abducting her and taking her back to the Underworld.

While she was there she ate pomegranate seeds which binds her to the Underworld for half of the year, and allows her to return to the surface and Olympus for the rest of the year.

Zeus, with whom she had Persephone.

Poseidon, with whom she had Arion and Despoena (this was not 'love' but a rape).

Iasion, with whom she had Ploutos and Bootes.

Carmanor, with whom she had Eubouleus and Chrysothemis.

Mekon was also loved by Demeter, and transformed into a poppy flower.

She was the Goddess of the Harvest, which meant she presided over grains and the seasons. They say that the winter is cold because these are the months when Persephone, Demeter's daughter, was with Hades in the Underworld. In the summer, Demeter is with her daughter again and is joyful, so it is warm.

Crops and harvest.

well, the story is that Persephone, goddess of spring, was the daught of Demeter, goddess of the harvest, and Zeus, god of lightening. Hades came to Zeus asking if he could take Persephone down to the underworld and make her his bride. Zeus agreed, saying that if Hades could get Persephone to go with him to the underworld, he could make her his bride. Hades found Persephone picking flowers in a field with her friends and took her down to the underworld on his chariot. However, when Demeter couldn't find her daughter, she came to ask Zeus if he knew where Persephone was. When she learned what had happened, she threatened that if her daughter wasn't returned, she would prevent anything from growing. Under the threat of death for man kind, Zeus said that Persephone could return IF she hadn't eaten anything in the underworld. Unfortunately, Hades had tricked eating Persephone into eating a few pomegranate seeds. In a compromise, they agreed that Persephone would spend 9 months of the year with Demeter (spring, summer, and fall) but would return to her husband for the other three months (winter).

She must be considered very powerful, as when she is mourning the loss of her daughter, she stops everything from growing on the earth!

I can't find a source right now, but as I recall, when Demeter was crying, distraught after having lost Persephone, and the boy (who must have a name, almost all those Greek figures do) laughed at her, she transformed him into a lizard, which was promptly devoured by a hawk, eagle, or some other predator. After his death, he was a gardener in Hades' palace in the underworld, and tempted Persephone with the pomegranate arils that doomed her to part-time cohabitation with Hades. Again, I can't find a source, and this version of the myth might be a fabrication by the Evslins, or someone.

Demeter is not mentioned by Hesiod when Pandora is given gifts.