Raros

Raros ( Greek  Ρ̓ᾶρος ) is the son of Kranaos in Greek mythology . Together with a daughter of Amphictyon , a legendary Attic king, he is the father of Triptolemus , the hero of the Mysteries of Eleusis .

In the Suda , the Byzantine lexicon, Raros is the father of Keleos and the grandfather of Triptolemos.

The Rarion or Rarion pedion is named after him, a plain near Eleusis on which the first grain and the holy seeds of Demeter were sown.

swell

• Homeric Hymn 2 To Demeter 450
• Pausania's description of Greece 1.14.2, 1.38.6
• Hesychios of Alexandria sv Kranaos and Raros
• Photios Library 483.12
• Suda sv Rarias

literature

• Lorentz: Raros . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, Col. 61 f. ( Digitized version ).