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424 TEMENOS OF DEMETER, PERSEPHONE,
after incurring the wrath of Dcraeter by cutting
down her sacred grove.1'
The part taken by the sons of Triopas in the colo-
nization of llhodes and the adjacent islands would
account for the adoption of these rites at Telos:*
This seems to be all that has been handed down
to us from antiquity respecting these Triopia sacra,
except the fact that, when, at a much later period,
Ilerodes Atticus dedicated a temenos to Demeter
and Persephone, in memory of his wife Regilla, he
gave the name Triopium to this precinct, perhaps
to invest it with greater sanctity, by reminding sa-
crilegious trespassers of the crime of Triopas.J It
•' Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. ii. I. 27 ; Boeckb ad Inc. ; and Corp. In-
script. i. p. 45. Compare Callimachus, Hymn I. 25 ; K. 0. Mueller,
Dorians, Lewis and Tufnell's transl. i. p. 415 ; AthenaBiis, vi.
]). 2G2. Boeckh, in liis commentary on the passage from Pindar,
cited above, thinks that Thessaly was not the original seat of the
Triopian worship, but that it was brought from Argos to Dotium,
by the family of Triopas. In support of this view he cites
Herod, ii. 171; Pausan. ii. 22, 2, to show that in Argos was a
temple of the Pelasgian Demeter, said to have been founded
by Pelasgus, son of Triopas. Hence Gerhard, Mythologie, § 40(5,
gives the name Pelasgo-Triopian to this particular form of worship.
1 Atkenams, vi. p. 2G2.
J Corpus Inscript. No. 26, No. 0,280. Jacobs, Anthol. Annott.
ii. Pt. TT. p. 369. It has been conjectured that Ilerodes Atticus
gave the name Triopium to the temenos dedicated by him, because
he was educated by Theagenes of Cnidus. Jacobs, loc. cit. thinks
that this name may have been given from the same love for an-
cient associations which induced Hadrian to distinguish parts of
his domain at Tibur by the names Lyceum, Academia, Tempe ;
but he admits, at the same time, the ingenious conjecture of
Eichstaedt that the name Triopium was specially chosen to protect
this hallowed precinct from trespassers, by reminding them of the
punishment with which Demeter visited the sacrilege of Triopas.
after incurring the wrath of Dcraeter by cutting
down her sacred grove.1'
The part taken by the sons of Triopas in the colo-
nization of llhodes and the adjacent islands would
account for the adoption of these rites at Telos:*
This seems to be all that has been handed down
to us from antiquity respecting these Triopia sacra,
except the fact that, when, at a much later period,
Ilerodes Atticus dedicated a temenos to Demeter
and Persephone, in memory of his wife Regilla, he
gave the name Triopium to this precinct, perhaps
to invest it with greater sanctity, by reminding sa-
crilegious trespassers of the crime of Triopas.J It
•' Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. ii. I. 27 ; Boeckb ad Inc. ; and Corp. In-
script. i. p. 45. Compare Callimachus, Hymn I. 25 ; K. 0. Mueller,
Dorians, Lewis and Tufnell's transl. i. p. 415 ; AthenaBiis, vi.
]). 2G2. Boeckh, in liis commentary on the passage from Pindar,
cited above, thinks that Thessaly was not the original seat of the
Triopian worship, but that it was brought from Argos to Dotium,
by the family of Triopas. In support of this view he cites
Herod, ii. 171; Pausan. ii. 22, 2, to show that in Argos was a
temple of the Pelasgian Demeter, said to have been founded
by Pelasgus, son of Triopas. Hence Gerhard, Mythologie, § 40(5,
gives the name Pelasgo-Triopian to this particular form of worship.
1 Atkenams, vi. p. 2G2.
J Corpus Inscript. No. 26, No. 0,280. Jacobs, Anthol. Annott.
ii. Pt. TT. p. 369. It has been conjectured that Ilerodes Atticus
gave the name Triopium to the temenos dedicated by him, because
he was educated by Theagenes of Cnidus. Jacobs, loc. cit. thinks
that this name may have been given from the same love for an-
cient associations which induced Hadrian to distinguish parts of
his domain at Tibur by the names Lyceum, Academia, Tempe ;
but he admits, at the same time, the ingenious conjecture of
Eichstaedt that the name Triopium was specially chosen to protect
this hallowed precinct from trespassers, by reminding them of the
punishment with which Demeter visited the sacrilege of Triopas.