Cyamites

The hero of beans, a mysterious being, who had a small sanctuary on the road from Athens to Eleusis. No particulars are known about him, but Pausanias1 says, that those who were initiated in the mysteries or had read the so-called Orphica would understand the nature of the hero.

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References

Notes

  1. Description of Greece i, 37.3.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.