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[1] [2] Triptolemus is credited with being the first to sow seed for cultivation [3] after being taught by Demeter and is credited for the use of oxen and the plough. [4] Xenophon claims that Peloponnesus was the first place Triptolemus shared Demeter's agricultural gift [ 5 ] while Pausanias claims the Rharium plane near Eleusis was the first ...
The relief is made of Pentelic marble, and it is 2,20 m. tall, 1,52 m. wide, and 15 cm thick. [4] It depicts the three most important figures of the Eleusianian Mysteries; the goddess of agriculture and abundance Demeter, her daughter Persephone queen of the Underworld and the Eleusinian hero Triptolemus, the son of Queen Metanira, [3] [4] in what appears to be a rite. [1]
Triptolemos (Ancient Greek: Τριπτόλεμος) is a lost play of Sophocles.It was one of the plays which he produced in 468 BC for the City Dionysia, the year he first won the prize for tragedy at the festival. [1]
The latter probably depicted the bull with gilded horns which was the standard sacrificial offering for Triptolemus according to the late fifth-century First-Fruits decree. [44] [43] To the east of the temple, there are the limestone foundations of altar (1.10 x 2.70 metres), probably built in ca. 500 BC. [45]
When Triptolemus, while on his mission to introduce agriculture in various parts of the world, came to Thrace, he was at first hospitably received by Carnabon; but then the king treacherously seized his guest and was about to kill him. Triptolemus could not escape, as Carnabon had killed one of the dragons that pulled his chariot.
Eleusis was a son of Hermes and the Oceanid Daeira, or of Ogygus. [2] Panyassis wrote of him as father of Triptolemus, adding that "Demeter came to him"; [3] this version of the myth is found in the works of Hyginus and Servius. In other accounts, Eleusis had no offspring.
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Now the youth [i.e. Triptolemus] was carried high over Europe and Asia. He turned his face towards Scythia where Lyncus was king. He stood before the king's household gods. He was asked how he had come there, and the reason for his journey, his name, and his country. He said 'Athens, the famous city, is my home, Triptolemus, my name.