The Rarian Field (Ancient Greek: Ρ̓άριον Πεδίον, Rárion Pedíon, [rá.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 Rarias (Ρ̓αριάς) after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.[3][4]
Notes
- ^ Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450
- ^ Pausanias, 1.38.6.
- ^ a b 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.
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