Rarian Field
Template:Short description The Rarian Field (Template:Langx, Template:Transliteration, Template:IPA)<ref>It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. Herodianus 1. 546-547; 2. 940; scholia on Iliad, 1. 56, that the initial Template:Lang of Template:Lang Template:Transliteration ("Rarus"), the eponym of the Rarian Field, has a spiritus lenis on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with Template:Lang. Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is Template:Lang, not Template:Lang.</ref> was located in Eleusis in Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture.<ref>Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450</ref><ref>Pausanias, 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 (Template:Lang) after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.<ref name="Stephanus" /><ref>Suda, s.v. Rarias</ref>
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[edit]- 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. Template:ISBN. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.