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    Rharian Field

    Topic: Religion

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    Short description: Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries

    The Rharian Field (Greek: Ράριον Πεδίον, Rárion Pedíon, [r̥á.ri.on pe.dí.on]) was located in Eleusis in Ancient Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture.[1][2][3] It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.

    Demeter was often given the epithet Rharias after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.[3][4]

    Notes

    1. ↑ Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450
    2. ↑ Pausanias, 1.38.6.
    3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Rarion
    4. ↑ Suda, s.v. Rarias

    References

    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth), translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 93, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1918. ISBN:978-0-674-99104-0. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.




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