Rharias

A surname of Demeter, which she derived from the Rharian plain in the neighborhood of Eleusis, the principal seat of her worship.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 38.6.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium and Suidas, s.v.

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