Ceres takes revenge

Erysichthon has offended the Goddess of plenty: now Ceres chooses as the instrument of her terrible revenge her antithesis, Fames, who personifies famine and hunger.

Hear Ovid’s chilling description of her in Latin and follow in English here.

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