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The festival included ludi circenses circus games These opened with a horse race in the Circus Maximus with a starting point just below the Aventine Temple of Ceres Liber and Libera [4] After around 175 BC the Cerealia included ludi scaenici theatrical performances held April 12–18.

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Ceres&#39 main festival Cerealia was held from mid to late April It was organised by her plebeian aediles and included circus games ( ludi circenses ) It opened with a horserace in the Circus Maximus whose starting point lay below and opposite to her Aventine Temple [11] the turning post at the far end of the Circus was sacred to Consus a god of grainstorage Symbol sickle torches wheatsheaf crown of wheatstalks cornucopia with fruits cereals poppyParents and Children Siblings .

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The Cerealia festival was celebrated in her honor commenced on the 12th April and was connected with the growth of corn Ceres was the daughter of Saturn and Ops and the sister of Jupiter Pluto Neptune Vesta and Juno and the mother of Proserpina The Greek counterpart of this ancient Roman deity was Demeter Additional intriguing.

Ceres (mythology) Wikipedia

Cerealia festival Cerealia is a festival dedicated to all grains as indeed happened in ancient Roman rites of Vesta and Ceres the Ludi In a broader view the festival is extended to all countries of the Mediterranean area from which the subtitle “Ceres and the Mediterranean“.