Editing Eumolpus (section)

=== War with Athens ===
The traditions about this Eleusinian war, however, differ very much. According to some, the Eleusinians under Eumolpus attacked the Athenians under Erechtheus, but were defeated, and Eumolpus with his two sons, [[Phorbas]] and [[Immaradus]], were slain.<ref>Thucydides. ii. 15; Plutarch. ''Menex.'' p. 239; [[Isocrates]], ''Panathenaicus'' [https://topostext.org/work/84#193 193]; [[Plutarch]], ''Parallela minora'' 20; Scholia ad [[Euripides]], ''[[The Phoenician Women|Phoenissae]]'' 854.</ref> Pausanias relates a tradition that in the battle between the Eleusinians and Athenians, Erechtheus and Immaradus fell, and that thereupon peace was concluded on condition that the Eleusinians should in other respects be subject to Athens, but that they alone should have the celebration of their mysteries, and that Eumolpus and the daughters of Celeus should perform the customary sacrifices.<ref>Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio'' 1.38.3</ref> His son, [[Immaradus]], was killed by King [[Erichthonius I of Athens|Erechtheus]]. In some sources, Erechtheus having killed Eumolpus, Poseidon asked [[Zeus]] to avenge his son's death. Zeus killed Erechtheus with a lightning bolt or Poseidon made the earth open up and swallow Erechtheus. According to Hyginus,<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#46 46]; compare: [[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' 7, p. 321</ref> Eumolpus came to Attica with a colony of Thracians, to claim the country as the property of his father, Poseidon.

Eleusis lost the battle with Athens but the [[Eumolpides]] and [[Kerykes]], two families of priests to Demeter, continued the Eleusinian mysteries. Eumolpus' youngest son, [[Herald-Keryx]] who succeeded him in the priestly office, founded the lines.