Editing Plutus (section)

==Family==
Plutus is most commonly the son of [[Demeter]]<ref>[[Karl Kerenyi]], "We are not surprised to learn that the fruit of her love was Ploutos, 'riches'. What else could have sprung from the willingness of the grain goddess?" (''Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter'' (Bollingen) 1967, p 30).</ref> and [[Iasion]],<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D963 969]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''[[Bibliotheca historica|Historic Library]]'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#p235 5.77.1]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[De astronomia]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/207#2.4.7 2.4.7]; Grimal, s.v. Plutus, p. 378; Morford, p. 339; ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Plutus.</ref> with whom she lay in a thrice-ploughed field. He is alternatively the son of the fortune goddess [[Tyche]].<ref name=":phae">[[Aesop]], ''[[Aesop's fables|Fables]]'' [http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/413.htm 413], [=[[Phaedrus (fabulist)|Phaedrus]] 4.12].</ref>

Two ancient depictions of Plutus, one of him as a little boy standing with a cornucopia before Demeter, and another inside the cornucopia being handed to Demeter by a goddess rising out of the earth, perhaps implying that he had been born in the Underworld, were interpreted by [[Karl Kerenyi]] to mean that Plutus was supposed to be the son of [[Hades]] and [[Persephone]], the king and the queen of the [[Greek Underworld|Underworld]],<ref>[[Karl Kerenyi]], "After the rape of Persephone a child was born, the little Ploutos, who resembled the ravisher, Plouton- Latinized as Pluto. ... In two representations of the Eleusinian goddesses intended for the general public, two magnificent vase paintings in late Attic style, we see the child; once as a little boy standing with a cornucopia before the enthroned Demeter, and once in the cornucopia being handed to Demeter by a goddess rising out of the earth- as though he had been born down there in the realm to which Kore had been carried away." (''Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter'' (Bollingen) 1967, p 31).</ref> though no such version is attested in any primary source.