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Metaneira

*Meta/neira), the wife of Celeus, and mother of Triptolemus, received Demeter on her arrival in Attica. (Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 161; Apollod. 1.5.1.) Pausanias (1.39.1) calls her Meganaera.

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