- Demophon—"killer of men", a
counterpart to
Triptolemus— and
Triptolemus, his sons by Metanira.
Demeter saw
Triptolemus was sick and fed him her
breast milk...
-
Hemeroplanes triptolemus is a moth of the
family Sphingidae.
Female dorsal (coll.MHNT)
Female ventral (coll.MHNT) Its
chest and
wings are
covered in scales...
-
upper area and
three terraces,
centring on a
small temple for the hero
Triptolemus, an
outer propylon (gateway) and a
South Stoa. A
circular building in...
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taught the arts of
agriculture by
Triptolemus but he
refused to
teach it to his
people and then
tried to kill
Triptolemus.
Demeter turned him into a lynx...
- and
Triptolemus is
preserved in the
Poetical Astronomy by
Hyginus (who
refers to the king as "Carnabon"), and runs as follows: When
Triptolemus, while...
-
Underworld and the
Eleusinian hero
Triptolemus, the son of
Queen Metanira, in what
appears to be a rite.
Triptolemus stands in the center, the two goddesses...
- him, but once
Triptolemus fell asleep, he
attacked him with a dagger,
wanting to take
credit for his work.
Demeter then
saved Triptolemus by
turning Lyncus...
-
mysteries of Demeter's cult the
Eleusinian Mysteries. Diocles, Eumolpos,
Triptolemus and
Polyxeinus were the
others of the
first priests.
While Demeter was...
- and the
Titaness Mnemosyne. She was also
described as the
mother of
Triptolemus by Cheimarrhoos, son of Ares, and of the
musician Orpheus by Apollo....
-
archaeologists in 1883 in the
Ploutonion of Eleusis, it may
instead represent Triptolemus. Alternatively, the head
could be an
idealized portrait of the type frequently...
