Sep 9, 2020
The historians of ancient Patrae say that it was an aboriginal, Eumelus, who first settled in the land, and that he was king over but a few subjects. But when Triptolemus came from Attica, he received from him cultivated corn, and, learning how to found a city, named it Aroe from the tilling of the soil. It is said that Triptolemus once fell asleep, and that then Antheias, the son of Eumelus, yoked the dragons to the car of Triptolemus and tried to sow the seed himself. But Antheias fell off the car and was killed, and so Triptolemus and Eumelus together founded a city, and called it Antheia after the son of Eumelus.
Pausanias, Description of Greece (translation by W.H.S. Jones)
#pausanias#description of greece#patrae#triptolemos#antheias#antheia#ancient greece#eumelos#aroe#hellenic myth#dragons#serpents#agriculture#seeds#okay#only a few people will know why I am posting this bit#and for those of you who do#please take a moment to enjoy imagining#my reaction to coming across this#just recently#because it has taken me all these years to get around#to reading pausanias#and I had NO IDEA about the existence of this myth okay?#no. idea.#and I just#what#WHAT.
