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See also:EUMOLPUS (" sweet See also:singer ") , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, son of See also:Poseidon and Chione, the daughter of See also:Boreas, legendary See also:priest, poet and See also:warrior. He finally settled in See also:Thrace, where he became See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. During a See also:war between the Eleusinians and Athenians under See also:Erechtheus, he went to the assistance of the former, who on a previous occasion had shown him hospitality, but was slain with his two sons, Phorbas and Immaradus. According to another tradition, Erechtheus and Immaradus lost their lives; the Eleusinians then submitted to See also:Athens on See also:condition that they alone should celebrate the mysteries, and that Eumolpus and the daughters of Celeus should perform the sacrifices. It is asserted by others that Eumolpus with a See also:colony of Thracians laid claim to See also:Attica as having belonged to his See also:father Poseidon (Isocrates, Panath. 193). The Eleusinian mysteries were generally considered to have been founded by Eumolpus, the first priest of See also:Demeter, but, according to some, by Eumolpus the son of See also:Musaeus, Eumolpus the Thracian being the father of Keryx, the ancestor of the priestly See also:family of the Kerykes. As priest, Eumolpus purifies Heracles from the See also:murder of the See also:Centaurs; as musician, he instructs him (as well as See also:Linus and See also:Orpheus) in playing the See also:lyre, and is the reputed inventor of vocal accompaniments to the See also:flute. Suidas reckons him one of the See also:early poets and a writer of See also:hymns of See also:consecration, and Diodorus Siculus quotes a See also:line from a Dionysiac hymn attrjbuted to Eumolpus. He is also said to have been the first priest of See also:Dionysus, and to have introduced the cultivation of the See also:vine and See also:fruit trees (See also:Pliny, Nat. Hist. vii. 199). His See also:grave was shown at Athens and See also:Eleusis. His descendants, called Eumolpidae, together with the Kerykes, were the hereditary guardians of the mysteries (q.v.).
See See also:Apollodorus ii. 5, iii. 15; See also:Pausanias i. 38. 2; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 273; Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 476; See also:Strabo vii. p. 321; Diod. Slc. i. 11 ; See also:article " Eumolpidai," by J. A. Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites.
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