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Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 1 (search)
n Ovid's version of the visit of Demeter to Eleusis （Ovid, Fasti iv.507ff.）, Celeus is not the tted heaven, and came in the likeness of a woman to Eleusis. And first she sat down on the rock which has been . Dem. 270ff. Demeter directs the people of Eleusis to build her a temple and altar “above Call Well, as Pausanias calls it, being outside Eleusis, on the road to Megara. In the course of the modern excavation of the sanctuary at Eleusis, the Well of the Fair Dances was discovered just outsidoncentric circles, round which the women of Eleusis probably tripped in the dance. See *praktik Panyasis affirms that Triptolemus was a son of Eleusis, for he says that Demeter came to him. Pherecydes, probably a purely mythical personage. As to Eleusis, the equally mythical hero who is said to have given his name to Eleusis, see Paus. 8.38.7. He is called Eleusinus by Hyginus, Fab. 147 and Serv.<
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 2 (search)
urytion to Pholoe, and Nessus to the river Evenus. The rest of them Poseidon received at Eleusis and hid them in a mountain. But Pholus, drawing the arrow from a corpse, wondered that sloughman's labours. This is confirmed by the ritual of the sacred ploughing observed at Eleusis, where members of the old priestly family of the Bouzygai or Ox-yokers uttered many cur sorts of snakes. When Hercules was about to depart to fetch him, he went to Eumolpus at Eleusis, wishing to be initiated. However it was not then lawful for foreigners to be initiated:aurs, he was cleansed by Eumolpus and then initiated.As to the initiation of Herakles at Eleusis, compare Diod. 4.25.1; Tzetzes, Chiliades ii.394. According to Diodorus, the rites were Aphidnus. Herodotus says （Hdt. 8.65） that any Greek who pleased might be initiated at Eleusis. The initiation of Herakles is represented in ancient reliefs. See A. B. Cook, Zeus, i.
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
ys the scene of the supplication at the altar of Mercy in Athens, Euripides lays it at the altar of Demeter in Eleusis （Eur. Supp. 1ff.）. In favour of the latter version it may be said that the graves of the fallen leaders were shown at Eleusis, near the Flowery Well （Paus. 1.39.1ff.; Plut. Thes. 29）; while the graves of the common soldiers were at Eleutherae, which is on the borders of Attica and Boeotia, on the direct road from Eleusis to TEleusis to Thebes （Eur. Supp. 756ff.; Plut. Thes. 29）. Tradition varied also on the question how the Athenians obtained the permission of the Thebans to bury the Argive dead. Some said that Theseus led an army to Thebes, defeated ted, they marched against the Thebans, defeated them in battle, and carrying off the Argive dead buried them at Eleusis. See Lys. 2.7-10. and took refuge at the altar of Mercy,As to the altar of Mercy at Athens see above Ap
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
nt version of the legend was told by Hesiod. According to him the snake was reared by Cychreus, but expelled from Salamis by Eurylochus because of the ravages it committed in the island; and after its expulsion it was received at Eleusis by Demeter, who made it one of her attendants. See Strab. 9.1.9. Others said that the snake was not a real snake, but a bad man nicknamed Snake on account of his cruelty, who was banished by Eurylochus and took refuge at Eleusis, where he was appointed to a minor office in the sanctuary of Demeter. See Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. *kuxrei=os pa/gos; Eustathius, Commentary on Dionysius Perieg. 507 （Geographi Graeci Minores, ed. C. Müller, vol. ii. p. 314）. Cychreus was regarded as one of the guardian heroes of Salamis, where he was buried with his face to the west. Sacrifices were regularly offered at his grave, and when Solon desired to establish the claim of At
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
rro, in Augustine, De civitate Dei xviii.9; Hyginus, Fab. 164. The Thriasian plain is the plain in which Eleusis stands. See Strab. 9.1.6 Strab. 9.1.13. Cecrops married Agraulus, daughter of Actaeus, andn of Erechtheus the Parian Chronicle also refers the first sowing of corn by Triptolemus in the Rharian plain at Eleusis, and the first celebration of the mysteries by Eumolpus at Eleusis （Marmor Parium 23-29）. Herein the PaEleusis （Marmor Parium 23-29）. Herein the Parian Chronicle seems to be in accord with the received Athenian tradition which dated the advent of Demeter, the beginning of agriculture, and the institution of the Eleusinian mysteries in the reign of Erechtheus. See Diod. ferred to the reigns either of Pandion the First or of his son Erechtheus. But Demeter was welcomed by Celeus at Eleusis,See above, Apollod. 1.5.1. and Dionysus by Icarius, who received from him a branch of a vine and learned the pr
Apollodorus, Library (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book 3 (search)
（Marmor Parium 27ff.） represents Eumolpus as a son of Musaeus, and says that he founded the mysteries of Eleusis. Apollodorus does not expressly attribute the institution of the mysteries to Eumolpus, but perhaps he implies it. Compare Apollod. 2.5.12. It seems to have been a common tradition that the mysteries of Eleusis were founded by the Thracian Eumolpus. See Plut. De exilio 17; Lucian, Demonax 34; Photius, Lexicon, s.v. *eu)molpi/dai. B38.3）, Erechtheus was himself slain in the battle, but Eumolpus survived it and was allowed to remain in Eleusis （Paus. 2.14.2）. Further, Pausanias relates that in the war with Eleusis the Athenians offered the supreme Eleusis the Athenians offered the supreme command of their forces to the exiled Ion, and that he accepted it （Paus. 1.31.3; Paus. 2.14.2; Paus. 7.1.5）; and with this account Strab. 8.7.1 substantially agrees. The war waged by Eumolpus on Athens is mentioned by Plat.
Apollodorus, Epitome (ed. Sir James George Frazer), book E (search)
nineteenth century by the construction of a road and railway along the coast. See Frazer's note on Paus. 1.44.6 （vol. ii. pp. 546ff. ）. Fifth, in Eleusis he slew Cercyon, son of Branchus and a nymph Argiope. This Cercyon compelled passers-by to wrestle, and in wrestling killed them. But Theseus lifted, Fab. 38, who calls Cercyon a son of Vulcan （Hephaestus）. The place associated with the story, known as the wrestling-school of Cercyon, was near Eleusis, on the road to Megara （Pausanias, 1.39.3）. The Scholiast on Lucian, l.c. says that it was near Eleutherae, but he is probably in error; for if the place were near Eleutherae, it must have been on the road from Eleusis to Thebes, which is not the road that Theseus would take on his way from the Isthmus of Corinth to Athens. Sixth, he slew Damastes, whom some call Polypemon.More commonly known as Procrustes. See Bacch. 17(18).27ff., ed. Je