Rarian Field
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The Rarian Field or Rharian Plain (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist., Template:Transliteration, grc)[1] was located in Eleusis in Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture.[2][3][4] It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Demeter was often given the epithet Rarias (Ρ̓αριάς) after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.[4][5]
Notes
- ↑ It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. Herodianus 1. 546-547; 2. 940; scholia on Iliad, 1. 56, that the initial Ρ̓ of Ρ̓ᾶρος Template:Transliteration ("Rarus"), the eponym of the Rarian Field, has a spiritus lenis on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with ρ. Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is Rarian, not *Rharian.
- ↑ Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450
- ↑ Pausanias, 1.38.6.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Rarion
- ↑ 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.