According to Pausanias, the Argives claim that this man was brother to Eubeleus and son of Trochilus.
According to Pausanias, the Argives claim that this man was brother to Eubeleus and son of Trochilus. A Scythian king who tried to kill this man was turned into a lynx, and this figure is often depicted riding across the sky in a winged chariot adorned with dragons. In a Homeric Hymn, this character was included with Diocles, Eumolpos, Polyxeinus, and his father in a list of early priests of that hymn's dedicatee. According to Pherecydes this figure was a son of Gaia and Oceanus, but in the more common tradition, he was the son of Cepheus and Metanira, who prevented a certain figure from burning the immortality away from this man's brother Demophon. For 10 points, name this figure who, according to the Eleusinian Mysteries, was tasked by Demeter with teaching mankind agriculture.
According to Pausanias, the Argives claim that this man was brother to Eubeleus and son of Trochilus.
Triptolemus