Demeter and Queen Metaneira of Eleusis. The scene may reflect an incident in the Homeric Hymn to De
Demeter and Queen Metaneira of Eleusis. The scene may reflect an incident in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter: the goddess, disguised as an elderly nursemaid, had been attempting to make Metaneira’s son Demophoon immortal by placing him in the hearth fire at night; Metaneira discovered her and cried out. Now Demeter has revealed her true form, and Metaneira propitiates the goddess, begging for forgiveness. Belly of an Apulian red-figure hydria, attributed to the Varrese Painter; ca. 340 BCE. Now in the Altes Museum, Berlin. -- source link
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