Rharian Field
The Rharian Field (Ράριον [sic!] πεδίον) was located in Eleusis in 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 surnamed Rharias after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.[3][4]
References
- ^ Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 450
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1. 38. 6
- ^ a b Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Rarion
- ^ Suda s. v. Rarias
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