Eleusis

A son of Hermes and Daeira, the daughter of Oceanus. The town of Eleusis in Attica was believed to have derived its name from him.1 He was married to Cothonea or Cyntinia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 38.7; Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 5.2; Hyginus. Fabulae, 147.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Georgics i, 19.

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.