Triptolemus
mythological figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
some new Triptolemus
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological figure associated with the underworld judges in this passage.
To think that, when you have escaped from those who wish to be reckoned in the number of judges, you should come to those who are truly called judges — Minos, Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, Triptolemus — and meet with those who have lived justly and in good faith — can this journey seem to you a mean one?
Stromata
Triptolemus, the mythic hero associated with the gift of agriculture, dated within the king-list.
Under Lynceus were the rape of the maiden and the founding of the precinct at Eleusis, and the husbandry of Triptolemus, and the coming of Cadmus to Thebes, and the kingdom of Minos.
Apology
Mythological demigod associated with the underworld judges
For if a man when he reaches the other world, after leaving behind these who claim to be judges, shall find those who are really judges who are said to sit in judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and all the other demigods who were just men in their lives, would the change of habitation be undesirable?
Adversus Marcionem
Greek mythological figure associated with the gift of agriculture, used as a comparison standard for divine benefaction.
At least one little pea Marcion's god ought to have brought forth as his own, that he might be proclaimed as some new Triptolemus.
Hellenica
A mythic Athenian ancestor invoked by Callias to ground peaceful relations with Lacedaemon.
The right course, indeed, would have been for us not to take up arms against one another in the beginning, since the tradition is that the first strangers to whom Triptolemus, our ancestor, revealed the mystic rites of Demeter and Core were Heracles, your state’s founder, and the Dioscuri, your citizens;