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Definition of Eleusinians

Eleusinian
Eleusinian El`eu*sin"i*an, a. [L. Eleusinius, Gr. ?.] Pertaining to Eleusis, in Greece, or to secret rites in honor of Ceres, there celebrated; as, Eleusinian mysteries or festivals.

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- The Eleusinian Mysteries (Gr****: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and ****phone...
- king of Athens, there was a war between the two states, in which the Eleusinians were defeated, whereupon they agreed to acknowledge the supremacy of...
- importance, particularly at Athens and Eleusis in connection with the Eleusinian mysteries, but without any significant mythology. He perhaps originated...
- thought that their own island had been the scene of the abduction, and the Eleusinians mentioned the Nysian plain in Boeotia, and said that ****phone had descended...
- between the Eleusinians and Athenians, Erechtheus and Immaradus fell, and that thereupon peace was concluded on condition that the Eleusinians should in...
- defeating the Thebans in battle. However, in Aeschylus' earlier lost tragedy Eleusinians, evidently Theseus obtained the bodies through negotiation, the version...
- psychoactive brew, as in the case of the Eleusinian Mysteries. A kykeon was used at the climax of the Eleusinian Mysteries to break a sacred fast, but it...
- mankind, call me the Pessinuntian Mother of the gods; ... the ancient Eleusinians Actaean Ceres; ... and the Egyptians who excel in ancient learning, honour...
- 1500 BC — Mycenaean civilization starts in Ancient Greece. c. 1500 BC — Eleusinian Mysteries start in Ancient Greece. c. 1500 BC — Formative/Preclassic period...
-  'Bull-hitcher'), was a hero of Eleusis in Gr**** mythology, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and is worshipped as the inventor and patron of agriculture...