Editing Eumolpus (section)

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Mythology regards Eumolpus as the founder of the Eleusinian mysteries, and as the first priest of Demeter and Dionysus; the goddess herself taught him, [[Triptolemus]], [[Diocles (mythology)|Diocles]], and [[Celeus]], the sacred rites, and he is therefore sometimes described as having himself invented the cultivation of the vine and of fruit-trees in general.<ref>''[[Homeric Hymns|Homeric Hymn]] to [[Demeter]]'' 476</ref><ref>[[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' 7.53</ref><ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 10.93</ref>

Eumolpus was an excellent musician and singer; he played the [[aulos]] and the [[lyre]].  He won a musical contest in the funereal games of [[Pelias]]. Eumolpus was regarded as an ancient priestly bard, poems and writings on the mysteries were fabricated and circulated at a later time under his name. One hexameter line of a Dionysiac hymn, ascribed to him, is preserved in Diodorus.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica]]'' 1.11</ref><ref>[[Suda|Suida]], ''Suda Encyclopedia'' s.v.</ref> The legends connected him also with Heracles, whom he is said to have instructed in music, or initiated into the mysteries.<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' 273</ref><ref>[[Theocritus]], ''[[Idyll]]s'' 24.108</ref><ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.5.12 2.5.12].</ref>

According to [[Diogenes Laërtius]] Eumolpus was the father of [[Musaeus of Athens|Musaeus]].<ref name="Diogenes Laërtius Lives Introduction" /> Lastly, according to [[Philochorus]], Eumolpus was the father of the legendary poet [[Musaeus of Athens|Musaeus]] by the [[List of lunar deities|lunar goddess]] [[Selene]].<ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dmusaeus-bio-2 s.v. Musaeus (literary 1)];  [[Philochorus]] ''[[Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller|FHG]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=y5pxAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA416 fr. 200] ([[Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller|Müller]]) [= Scholia on [[Aristophanes]]'s ''[[The Frogs|Frogs]]'' 1033].</ref>

The tomb of Eumolpus was shown both at Eleusis and Athens.<ref>Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio'' 1.38.2</ref> The difference in the traditions about Eumolpus led some of the ancients to suppose that two or three persons of that name ought to be distinguished.<ref>[[Hesychius of Alexandria|Hesychius]] ''s.v.'' Eumolpidai</ref><ref>Scholia on [[Sophocles]], ''[[Oedipus at Colonus]]'' 1051</ref><ref>Photius, Lex. ''s. v.'' Eumolpidai</ref>