Homeric Hymns To Demeter 477

comment on the variant line 477 which repeats the names of Triptolemos and Diocles from 474, and the earlier appearance of the names mentioned in 473-476, 478-479 including Eumolpos, in the context of analyzing Erechtheus’ later myth and the reason it gives for his presence in Poseidon’s temple and the myth according to which Poseidon’s son Eumolpos led a Thracian army against Athens claiming Athens as his birthright