Eumolpus

Demigod founder-priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries and eponym of the Eumolpidae; son of Poseidon (greek_hesiod_poseidon) and Chione the Boread (greek_chione_boread, authored in this batch). Named in Chione Boread's prose as her son by Poseidon and named in greek_erechtheus's prose as the Thracian-Eleusinian foe Erechtheus killed. The enemy-relation to greek_erechtheus is reciprocated within this transcript (both are authored here). His foster-mother Benthesicyme and the later Eumolpid hierophants lack entries and are named rather than wired.

Parentage

• father: PoseidonApollod. 3.15.4 (primary)
• mother: Chione the BoreadApollod. 3.15.4 (primary)

Domains

• mystery cult
• song

Powers

• Sacred song and mystic initiation

Epithets

• Εὔμολπος — the sweet-singername from eu- 'well' + molpe 'song'; Hom. Hymn Dem. 475-476 (primary)

Relations

• father: PoseidonApollod. 3.15.4 (primary)
• mother: Chione the BoreadApollod. 3.15.4 (primary)
• enemy: ErechtheusThe Athenian king who killed him in the Eleusis-Athens war.Apollod. 3.15.4; Eur. Erechtheus fr. 360-370 Kannicht (primary)

Sources

• existence: Homeric Hymn to Demeter 154, 475-476; Apollodorus 3.15.4; Pausanias 1.38.2-3; Euripides Erechtheus fr. 360-370 Kannicht; Thucydides 2.15.1 (primary)
• parentage: Apollodorus 3.15.4 (son of Poseidon and Chione the Boread) (primary)