Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

by: Mylonas, G.E.

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 Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
George Emmanuel Mylonas

About this book
The most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces of habitation at the site in the Middle Bronze Age (around 1900 B.C.) to its final grandeur and decay in Imperial Roman times.

A guided tour of the Museum at Eleusis, illustrated with photographs of objects in the Museum, as well as air views, plans, and detailed photographs of the ruins closely correlated with the text, takes into account the needs of the visitor at the site as well as the reader at home.

Originally published in 1961.

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ABBREVIATIONS

I. INTRODUCTION: LEGENDS AND HISTORY

II. EARLY HISTORY AND REMAINS

III. ELEUSIS IN THE EARLY CENTURIES OF THE HISTORIC ERA

IV. THE PEISISTRATEAN PERIOD (H) ca. 550–510 B.C.

V. THE KIMONIAN AND PERIKLEAN ERA ( F AND I) ca. 480-404 B.C.

VI. THE FOURTH CENTURY AND THE HELLENISTIC ERA (K)

VII. ELEUSIS IN ROMAN TIMES (L)

VIII. ART AND ELEUSIS

IX. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES

APPENDIX. THEORY AND FACT. THE WRITINGS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN FATHERS AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS

GLOSSARY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ILLUSTRATIONS

Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

by: Mylonas, G.E.

• ISBN-13: 9780691002057 / 978-0-691-00205-7
• ISBN-03: 0691002053 / 0-691-00205-3
• Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1974

Price: 79,00 EURO

1 copy in stock