Metanira

Family: Eleusinians · Role: wife of Celeus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.5

Apollodorus, Library 1.5

• married with Celeus “But Metanira, wife of Celeus, had a child”
• child: Demophon “But Metanira, wife of Celeus, had a child and Demeter received it to nurse, and wishing to make it immortal she set the babe of nights on the fire and stripped off its mortal flesh. But as Demophon — for that was the child's name— grew marvelously by day, Praxithea watched”
• child: Triptolemus “But for Triptolemus, the elder of Metanira's children, she made a chariot of winged dragons”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.