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{{short description|Family of priests who maintained the Eleusinian Mysteries}}
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The '''Eumolpidae''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|j|uː|ˈ|m|ɒ|l|p|ᵻ|d|iː}} ({{lang-grc|
The legendary genealogy of the Eumolpidae
==See also==
*[[List of Greek mythological figures]]
==References==
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==Further reading==
* Jon D. Mikalson, ''Ancient Greek Religion'' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), p. 83 [https://books.google.com/books?id=8o6xxlwbldcC&dq=eumolpidae&pg=PA83 online.]
* Bill Thayer has republished many entries from ''A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities'' (Smith, William, ed. 1875) online, including [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Eumolpidae.html the entry on Eumolpidae]
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The Eumolpidae /ˌjuːˈmɒlpɪdiː/ (Ancient Greek:
The legendary genealogy of the Eumolpidae cast them as descendants of Eumolpus, one of the first priests of Demeter at Eleusis, through his second son, Herald-Keryx. Eumolpus, "untainted by blame" is named among the archaic leaders of Eleusis in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter 149–156. Through Eumolpus, they were supposedly related to either Poseidon or Hermes. The last legitimate hierophant at Eleusis, just before the extinguishing of the mysteries at the time of Alaric's invasion in 396 CE, traced his descent from Eumolpos.[2] The other family with a hereditary Eleusinian priesthood were the Kerykes.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smith, William, ed. (1842). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. pp. 399–400.
- ^ Eunapios' biography of Maximos the Neoplatonist is the source, quoted at length by Carl Kerenyi, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter 1967:17.
Further reading
[edit]- Jon D. Mikalson, Ancient Greek Religion (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), p. 83 online.
- Bill Thayer has republished many entries from A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Smith, William, ed. 1875) online, including the entry on Eumolpidae