Rharian Field Explained

The Rharian Field (in Greek, Ancient (to 1453); pronounced as /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.^{[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.^[4]

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. . Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450
2. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
3. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
4. [Suda]