The Rarian Field or Rarian Plain (, , )It was specifically stressed by ancient grammarians, e. g. Herodianus 1. 546-547; 2. 940; scholia on Iliad, 1. 56, that the initial of ("Rarus"), the eponym of the Rarian Field, has a spiritus lenis on it, unlike all other Greek words beginning with . Thus, the correct Latin transliteration is , not . 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, 1.38.6.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Rarion It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Demeter was often given the epithet Rarias () after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.Suda, s.v. Rarias
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References Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth), translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 93, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1918. . Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.