The Rarian Field or Rharian Plain (, , ) was located in Eleusis in Greece and was supposedly where the first plot of grain was grown after Demeter (through Triptolemus) taught humanity agriculture. It was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Demeter was often given the epithet Rarias () after the field, or after its mythical eponym Rarus.
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- Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume I: Books 1-2 (Attica and Corinth), translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 93, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1918. . Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.