Religion:Rharian Field

Short description: Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries

The Rharian Field (Greek: Ράριον Πεδίον, Rárion Pedíon, [r̥á.ri.on pe.dí.on]) was located in Eleusis in Ancient Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture. It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Demeter was often given the epithet Rharias after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.

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. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.