- 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...
-
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...
- importance,
particularly at
Athens and
Eleusis in
connection with the
Eleusinian mysteries, but
without any
significant mythology. He
perhaps originated...
-
defeating the
Thebans in battle. However, in Aeschylus'
earlier lost
tragedy Eleusinians,
evidently Theseus obtained the
bodies through negotiation, the version...
- The
Great Eleusinian Relief (Gr****: Μεγάλο Ανάγλυφο Ελευσινίων Μυστηρίων) is a
large marble relief kept in the
National Archaeological Museum,
Athens in...
-
between the
Eleusinians and Athenians,
Erechtheus and
Immaradus fell, and that
thereupon peace was
concluded on
condition that the
Eleusinians should in...
-
compounded 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...
- in the
plain was
Eleusis (modern-day Elefsina),
location of the
famous Eleusinian Mysteries. In Gr**** mythology, when the
goddess Athena won the contest...
