Triptolemus

Role: youth · First appears: Fable 54

Life events

Ceres orders Triptolemus to scatter her seeds across fallow and reclaimed earth.(Fable54 · 📍 Tritonian citadel)
- With: Ceres
- “and she ordered him to scatter the seeds that were entrusted {to him} partly in the fallow ground, {and} partly {in the ground} restored to cultivation after so long a time.”
Lyncus attacks Triptolemus with a sword while he sleeps.(Fable54 · 📍 Scythia)
- With: Lyncus
- “The barbarian envies him; and that he himself may be {deemed} the author of so great a benefit, he receives him with hospitality, and, when overpowered with sleep, he attacks him with the sword.”
Ceres sends Triptolemus onward to drive her sacred chariot through the air.(Fable54)
- With: Ceres
- “and again sent the Mopsopian[80] youth to drive the sacred drawers of her chariot through the air.”

with Ceres (Ceres entrusts Triptolemus with her chariot and orders him to cultivate the earth.) “The fertile Goddess yoked[78] two dragons to her chariot, and curbed their mouths with bridles; and was borne through the mid air of heaven and of earth, and guided her light chariot to the Tritonian citadel, to Triptolemus; and she ordered him to scatter the seeds that were entrusted {to him} partly in the fallow ground, {and} partly {in the ground} restored to cultivation after so long a time.”
enemies with Lyncus “The barbarian envies him; and that he himself may be {deemed} the author of so great a benefit, he receives him with hospitality, and, when overpowered with sleep, he attacks him with the sword.”
patron: Ceres (Ceres commissions and equips Triptolemus to spread agricultural knowledge.) “Ceres entrusts her chariot to Triptolemus, and orders him to go everywhere, and cultivate the earth.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.