Eleusis

Role: hero · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 38

In Book 1, Chapter 38, Eleusis is named as a hero and the source of the city’s name. Some accounts make him the son of Hermes and Daira, daughter of Oceanus; others name Ogygus as his father. The chapter also records that peace made Eleusis politically Athenian while preserving the people’s private management of the Mysteries.

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• Peace made Eleusis politically Athenian while preserving private management of its Mysteries.(Book 1 · Chapter 38)
  • “and peace was concluded on these conditions, that the people of Eleusis should be in all other respects Athenians, but should have the private management of their Mysteries.”

Book 1 · Chapter 38

• parent: Hermes (One tradition makes Hermes the father of Eleusis.) “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”
• parent: Daira (One tradition makes Daira the mother of Eleusis.) “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”
• parent: Ogygus (An alternative tradition makes Ogygus the father of Eleusis.) “And the hero Eleusis, from whom the city gets its name, was according to some the son of Hermes and Daira the daughter of Oceanus, others make him the son of Ogygus.”

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