Editing Rarian Field

{{Short description|Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries}}
The '''Rarian Field''' ({{Langx|grc|Ρ̓άριον Πεδίον}}, {{Transliteration|grc|Rárion Pedíon}}, {{IPA|grc|rá.ri.on pe.dí.on|}})<ref>It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. [[Aelius Herodianus|Herodianus]] 1. 546-547; 2. 940; [[scholia]] on ''[[Iliad]]'', 1. 56, that the initial {{lang|grc|Ρ̓}} of {{Lang|grc|Ρ̓ᾶρος}} {{Transliteration|grc|Râros}} ("[[Rarus]]"), the [[eponym]] of the Rarian Field, has a [[spiritus lenis]] on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with {{lang|grc|ρ}}. Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is {{lang|la|Rarian}}, not {{lang|la|*Rharian}}.</ref>  was located in [[Eleusis]] in [[ancient Greece|Greece]] and was supposedly where the first plot of [[cereal|grain]] was grown after [[Demeter]] (through [[Triptolemus]]) taught humanity [[agriculture]].<ref>''[[Homeric Hymn]] 2 to Demeter'' 450</ref><ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.38.6 1.38.6].</ref><ref name="Stephanus">[[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''Rarion''</ref> It was associated with the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]].

Demeter was often given the [[epithet]] ''Rarias'' ({{lang|grc|Ρ̓αριάς}}) after the field, or after its mythical [[eponym]] [[Rarus]].<ref name="Stephanus" /><ref>[[Suda]], s.v. ''Rarias''</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
* [[Pausanias (geographer)|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}}. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/LCL093/1918/volume.xml Online version at Harvard University Press]. [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].

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