Rarus
Template:Short description In Greek mythology, Rarus (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "lang".) or Rar (Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "lang".)[1] was a son of Cranaus,[2] eponym of the Rarian Field near Eleusis, and a possible father of Triptolemus by an unnamed daughter of Amphictyon.[3][4][5] According to Suda, Rarus was the father of Celeus and through him grandfather of Triptolemus. He received Demeter hospitably as she was searching for her daughter Persephone, and the goddess, in reward, taught his grandson the art of cultivating crops.[6] According to Robert Graves, Rarus name whether it means ‘an abortive child’, or ‘a womb’, is an inappropriate name for a king, and will have referred to the womb of the Corn-mother from which the corn sprang.[7]
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- ^ It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. Herodianus 1. 546-547; 2. 940; scholia on Iliad, 1. 56, that the initial Script error: No such module "Lang". of his name has a spiritus lenis on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with Script error: No such module "Lang".. Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is Script error: No such module "Lang"., not Script error: No such module "Lang"..
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria, s.v. Kranaou hyios
- ^ Pausanias, 1.14.3
- ^ Hesychius of Alexandria, s.v. Raros, also noting that the adjective Script error: No such module "Lang". meant "strong"
- ^ Photius, Lexicon s.v. Rar
- ^ Suida, s.v. Rarias
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 94. ISBN 9780241983386.
References
- Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths: The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. 2017. Template:ISBN
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Template:ISBN. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
