Rarian Field

{{Short description|Place in Eleusis, Greece, associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries}}

The Rarian Field ({{Langx|grc|Ρ̓άριον Πεδίον}}, {{Transliteration|grc|Rárion Pedíon}}, {{IPA|grc|rá.ri.on pe.dí.on|}})It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. Herodianus 1. 546-547; 2. 940; scholia on Iliad, 1. 56, that the initial {{lang|grc|Ρ̓}} of {{Lang|grc|Ρ̓ᾶρος}} {{Transliteration|grc|Râros}} ("Rarus"), the eponym of the Rarian Field, has a spiritus lenis on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with {{lang|grc|ρ}}. Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is {{lang|la|Rarian}}, not {{lang|la|*Rharian}}. was located in Eleusis in Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture.Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 450Pausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.38.6 1.38.6].Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Rarion It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Demeter was often given the epithet Rarias ({{lang|grc|Ρ̓αριάς}}) after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.Suda, s.v. Rarias