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Eumolpos


In Greek Mythology, Eumolpus (Ancient Greek: Εὔμολπος Eumolpos, Latin: Eumolpus "good singer" or "sweet singing" derived from eu "good" and molpe "song","singing") was a legendary Thracian king who established the city of Eumolpias, also called Eumolpiada (present-day Plovdiv) around 1200 BC (or 1350 BC), naming it after himself. He was described as having come to Attica either as a bard, a warrior, or a priest of Demeter and Dionysus

Eumolpus was the son of Poseidon (Neptune in Roman tradition) and Chione. In the legend he is described neither Greek, nor Thracian or Roman, but Libyan and a native of North Africa, though his mother Chione is said to be a Thracian princess. An alternative genealogy also stated that Eumolpus was born to the god Apollo and the nymph Astycome.

According to the Bibliotheca, Chione, daughter of Boreas and the heroine Oreithyia, pregnant in secret with Eumolpus by Poseidon, was frightened of her father's reaction so she threw the baby into the ocean after giving birth to him. Poseidon however, looked after him and brought him to shore in Ethiopia, where Benthesikyme, a daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, raised the child as their own. When he grown up, Eumolpus then married one of Benthesikyme's two daughters by her Ethiopian husband. Eumolpus however, loved a different daughter whom he made an attempt upon her chastity and thus he was banished because of this. He went to Thrace with his son Ismarus (or Immaradus) who was married to the daughter of King Tegyrius. Later on, Eumolpus was discovered in a plot to overthrow King Tegyrios and was obliged to take flight and fled to Eleusis where he formed a friendship with the Eleusinians.


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