Daeira

According to Aischylos, Daeira was the same as Persephone.^[7][8][9] Others said she was Persephone's nurse; Persephone's jailer; identical with Aphrodite; identical with Demeter;^[10] identical with Hera;^[11] identical with Hekate;^[12] an enemy of Demeter, so that the latter's priestess avoided her rites.^[13][14]

The Eleusinian link is clearly fundamental, and confirmed by offerings to Daeira in an Eleusinian context in two if not three fifth- and fourth-century sacrificial calendars.^[15] The chaos in the myths even in the fifth century must be due in part to the secrecy of the Mysteries, but perhaps also to the unimportance of this particular kind of accuracy in ritual matters.^[16] An Attic religious official δαειρίης (Δαειρίης?) is attested by Pollux^[17] of whose ritual activity Daeira may have been a projection.^[18]

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• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Titus Flavius Clemens, Exhortation against the Pagans translated by Butterworth, G W. Loeb Classical Library Volume 92. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1919. Online version at theio.com