{{Short description|Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries}} The '''Rarian Field''' or '''Rharian Plain''' ({{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. 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 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, [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>
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==References== * 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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Category:Ancient Greek religion Category:Eleusinian Mysteries Category:Places in Greek mythology
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