Editing Demeter (section)

===Wrath myths===
[[File:Склеп Деметры.JPG|thumb|left|Demeter in an ancient Greek [[fresco]] from [[Panticapaeum]], 1st century [[Crimea]].]]
According to [[Ovid]], Demeter gave the Sirens, the companions of Persephone, wings to search for her daughter when she was abducted by Hades.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' V, 551.</ref> However, the ''Fabulae'' of [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]] has Demeter cursing the sirens for failing to intervene in the abduction of Persephone. <ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#141 141]</ref><ref>Pseudo-Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 141 (trans. Grant).</ref>

While travelling far and wide looking for her daughter, Demeter arrived exhausted in [[Attica]]. A woman named Misme took her in and offered her a cup of water with pennyroyal and barley groats, for it was a hot day. Demeter, in her thirst, swallowed the drink clumsily. Witnessing that, Misme's son [[Ascalabus]] laughed, mocked her, and asked her if she would like a deep jar of that drink.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph5.htm#479128841 5.446-461]; [[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#24 24]; Tripp, s.v. Ascalabus.</ref> Demeter then poured her drink over him and turned him into a [[gecko]], hated by both men and gods. It was said that Demeter showed her favour to those who killed geckos.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#24 24].</ref>

Demeter pinned [[Ascalaphus (son of Acheron)|Ascalaphus]] under a rock for reporting, as sole witness, to [[Hades]] that Persephone had consumed some [[pomegranate]] seeds.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.5.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022#note6 1.5.3].</ref> Later, after [[Heracles]] rolled the stone off Ascalaphus, Demeter turned him into a short-eared owl instead.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.5.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022#note6 2.5.12].</ref> In other versions, Persephone was the one who transformed Ascalaphus into the bird by sprinkling him with water of the river [[Phlegethon]].<ref>Ovid. ''Metamorphoses''. Book V, 534.</ref>

Before Hades abducted Persephone, he had kept [[Minthe]] as his mistress. But after he married Persephone, he set Minthe aside. Minthe would often brag about being lovelier and more queenly than Persephone and say Hades would soon come back to her and kick Persephone out of his halls. Demeter, hearing that insult towards her daughter, grew angry and trampled Minthe; from the earth then sprang a lovely-smelling [[Mentha|herb]] named after the nymph.<ref>[[Oppian]], ''Halieutica'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Oppian/Halieutica/3*.html#482 3.485 ff]</ref> In other versions, Persephone herself is the one who kills and turns Minthe into a plant.<ref>[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+8.3.14&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198 8.3.14.]</ref><ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Nicander|Nicandri]] ''Alexipharmaca'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy2LWzF4v3oC&pg=PA212 375]</ref><ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph10.htm#484521431 10.728]</ref>

In an [[Argos, Peloponnese|Argive]] myth, when Demeter travelled to [[Argolis]], a man named Colontas refused to receive her in his house, whereas his daughter [[Chthonia]] disapproved of his actions. Colontas was punished by being burnt along with his house, but Demeter took Chthonia to [[Hermione (Argolis)|Hermione]], where she built a sanctuary for the goddess.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.35.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160 2.35.4]</ref>

Once, the Colchian princess [[Medea]] ended a famine that plagued [[Corinth]] by making sacrifices to Demeter and the nymphs.<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Pindar]]'s ''Olympian Odes'' [https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5034.tlg001a.perseus-grc1:13.74/ 13.74]</ref>