229 E. Dodwell, _A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece_ (London, 1819), i. 583. E. D. Clarke found the image “on the side of the road, immediately before entering the village, and in the midst of a heap of dung, buried as high as the neck, a little beyond the farther extremity of the pavement of the temple. Yet even this degrading situation had not been assigned to it wholly independent of its antient history. The inhabitants of the small village which is now situated among the ruins of Eleusis still regarded this statue with a very high degree of superstitious veneration. They attributed to its presence the fertility of their land; and it was for this reason that they heaped around it the manure intended for their fields. They believed that the loss of it would be followed by no less a calamity than the failure of their annual harvests; and they pointed to the ears of bearded wheat, upon the sculptured ornaments upon the head of the figure, as a never-failing indication of the produce of the soil.” When the statue was about to be removed, a general murmur ran among the people, the women joining in the clamour. “They had been always,” they said, “famous for their corn; and the fertility of the land would cease when the statue was removed.” See E. D. Clarke, _Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa_, iii. (London, 1814) pp. 772-774, 787 _sq._ Compare J. C. Lawson, _Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion_ (Cambridge, 1910), p. 80, who tells us that “the statue was regularly crowned with flowers in the avowed hope of obtaining good harvests.” 230 Cicero, _In C. Verrem_, act. ii. lib. iv. 51. M49 Sacred marriage of Zeus and Demeter at Eleusis. Homer on the love of Zeus for Demeter. Zeus the Sky God may have been confused with Subterranean Zeus, that is, Pluto. Demeter may have been confused with Persephone; in art the types of the two goddesses are often very similar. _ 231 The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 138 _sq._ 232 This view was expressed by my friend Professor Ridgeway in a paper which I had the advantage of hearing him read at Cambridge in the early part of 1911. Compare _The Athenaeum_, No. 4360, May 20th, 1911, p. 576. 233 Dittenberger, _Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum_,2 No. 20; E. S. Roberts and E. A. Gardner, _Introduction to Greek Epigraphy_, ii. (Cambridge, 1905) No. 9, pp. 22 _sq._ See above, pp. 55 _sq._ 234 Homer, _Iliad_, xiv. 326. 235 Homer, _Odyssey_, v. 125 _sqq._ 236 Diodorus Siculus, iii. 62. 6. 237 Clement of Alexandria, _Protrept._ 12, p. 12, ed. Potter. 238 Hesiod, _Works and Days_, 465 _sqq._