Triptolemus

Family: Eleusinians · Role: son of Metanira · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Triptolemus)

Life events

Demeter gave Triptolemus a dragon chariot and wheat to sow throughout the inhabited earth.(Apollodorus, Library 1.5)
- With: Demeter
- “For Triptolemus, the elder of Metanira's children, she made a chariot of winged dragons, and gave him wheat, with which, wafted through the sky, he sowed the whole inhabited earth.”

parent: Metanira “But for Triptolemus, the elder of Metanira's children, she made a chariot of winged dragons”
with Demeter (Demeter equipped Triptolemus and gave him wheat.) “she made a chariot of winged dragons, and gave him wheat, with which, wafted through the sky, he sowed the whole inhabited earth.”
parent: Eleusis “But Panyasis affirms that Triptolemus was a son of Eleusis”
parent: Ocean “Pherecydes, however, says that he was a son of Ocean and Earth.”
parent: Earth “Pherecydes, however, says that he was a son of Ocean and Earth.”
siblings with Demophon “But as Demophon — for that was the child's name— grew marvelously by day, Praxithea watched, and discovering him buried in the fire she cried out; wherefore the babe was consumed by the fire and the goddess revealed herself. But for Triptolemus, the elder of Metanira's children”

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