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Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries

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

Demeter was often given the epithet Rharias (Ῥαριάς) after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.

Notes

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

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