Dysaules
Family: Eleusinian · Role: father of Eubules and Triptolemus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 14
Book 1, Chapter 14 names Dysaules as the father of Eubules and Triptolemus. In Book 2, Chapter 14, he is described as the brother of Celeus and as having been driven from Eleusis by Ion.
After leaving Eleusis, Dysaules went to the Phliasian country and established Demeter’s rites. He established the local mysteries at Celeæ and gave the place its name. Book 2, Chapter 12 says he was buried there.
Relationship record
Life events
- Dysaules is buried at Celeæ.(Book 2 · Chapter 12 · 📍 Celeæ)
- “And the sepulchre of Aras is in a place called Celeæ, where they say also Dysaules, an Eleusinian, is buried.”
- Dysaules was driven from Eleusis and established Demeter’s rites in the Phliasian country.(Book 2 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Eleusis)
- With: Ion
- “came to their country and established these rites, when he was driven from Eleusis by Ion”
- Dysaules established the local mysteries and gave the place its name, Celeæ.(Book 2 · Chapter 14 · 📍 Celeæ)
- “Dysaules established the mysteries here, and also gave the name Celeæ to the place”
Book 1 · Chapter 14
- child: Eubules (Genealogy attributed to Orpheus.) “that Dysaules was the father of Eubules and Triptolemus”
- child: Triptolemus (Genealogy attributed to Orpheus.) “that Dysaules was the father of Eubules and Triptolemus”
Book 2 · Chapter 12
- with Aras (Aras and Dysaules are said to be buried at the same place.) “And the sepulchre of Aras is in a place called Celeæ, where they say also Dysaules, an Eleusinian, is buried.”
Book 2 · Chapter 14
- siblings with Celeus “They say that Dysaules the brother of Celeus came to their country and established these rites”
- with Ion (Ion drove Dysaules from Eleusis.) “They say that Dysaules the brother of Celeus came to their country and established these rites, when he was driven from Eleusis by Ion the son of Xuthus, who had been chosen commander in chief by the Athenians in the war against the people of Eleusis.”
- with Homer (Homer omitted Dysaules from his list of those taught the mysteries.) “Nor indeed had he, as it seems to me, any other relation with the Eleusinian chiefs than as brother of Celeus, for else Homer would not have passed him over in his Hymn to Demeter: where in his list of those who were taught the mysteries by the goddess he ignores Dysaules.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.