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Demophon would never obtain a life free from death, but Demeter's actions, in fact, prepared and destined him to become immortalized as a recipient of a hero cult: while Demophon survives in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the scholia attest to other versions in which Demophon does not survive his time in the fire.
Celeus (/ ˈ s iː l i ə s / SEE-lee-əs) or Keleus (Ancient Greek: Κελεός, romanized: Keleós) was the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology, husband of Metaneira and father of several daughters, who are called Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, [1] and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias.
The story describes how Demeter, persuaded to stay at the palace of Eleusis by its prince, Celeus, was given the task of raising Celeus's son Demophon. When she is discovered to be a Goddess by the queen Metaneira after trying in vain to make Demophon immortal, she instructed the Eluesinians to build a temple for her. Upon later finding ...
In other sources Demophon is the son of the King of Eleusis, Celeus, and his queen, Metanira. This suggests that in fragment 49 Baubo is the queen of Eleusis. [8] In this fragment, when Baubo sees what Demeter is doing, she cries out in fear. In response Demeter burns the child to death [9]
Printable version; In other projects ... move to sidebar hide. Demophon or Demophoon may refer to: Mythology. Demophon of Athens, son of Theseus and Phaedra; Demophon ...
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In Greek mythology, Saesara (Ancient Greek: Σαισάρα, romanized: Saisára) was an Eleusinian princess as the daughter of King Celeus [1] and possibly Metaneira, and thus probably the sister of Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice, Callithoe, [2] Diogeneia, Pammerope, [3] Demophon, and Triptolemus.
Praxithea, the woman that cried out when she saw Demeter holding Metanira's son Demophon in the fires, thus preventing him from becoming immortal. [9] Praxithea (or Phrasithea), daughter of Leos. [10] Along with her sisters, Theope and Eubule, she sacrificed herself in order to save Athens. In another version, their father was the one who ...