Eubules

Role: son of Dysaules · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 14

According to Book 1, Chapter 14, Trochilus fled Argos because of Agenor’s hatred, came to Attica, and married a wife from Eleusis; they had Eubules and Triptolemus. Dysaules was also named as their father. Demeter taught Eubules and Triptolemus how to sow corn because they had given her information about the rape of her daughter.

Relationship record

Life events

• Trochilus fled Argos, married in Eleusis, and had Eubules and Triptolemus.(Book 1 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Trochilus Agenor (enemy of Trochilus) Triptolemus
  • “Trochilus the initiating priest fled they say from Argos in consequence of the hatred of Agenor, and came to Attica, and there married a wife from Eleusis, and had children by her, Eubules and Triptolemus.”
• Demeter taught Eubules and Triptolemus how to sow corn.(Book 1 · Chapter 14)
  • With: Demeter Triptolemus
  • “Demeter taught them how to sow corn because they had given her information about the rape of her daughter.”

Book 1 · Chapter 14

• parent: Trochilus (Trochilus is the named parent; the mother is unnamed.) “there married a wife from Eleusis, and had children by her, Eubules and Triptolemus”
• parent: Dysaules (Genealogy attributed to Orpheus.) “that Dysaules was the father of Eubules and Triptolemus”
• mentor: Demeter “that Dysaules was the father of Eubules and Triptolemus, and that Demeter taught them how to sow corn”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.