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Here, a script of the Eleusinian mysteries is alluded to, as people re-enacted Demeter's actions after her daughter was stolen from her.
Demeter, goddess of the Eleusinian mysteries, progenerated wheat from her womb and delegated it to her son, Triptolemus, to distribute around the world's cultures.
Hadrian himself had worshipped at the ancient shrine of the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece and a variety of mystery religions became respectable and accepted.
In the ensuing panic Alcibiades was accused of being the originator of the sacrilege as well as of having profaned the Eleusinian Mysteries.
The Telestrion hall, where the Eleusinian Mysteries were performed, was a square hall with rock-cut seats.
Wherever a holy one of these Sibyls abided, it was sure that also a Delphic, Bacchic, Kabiric, Dactylic or Eleusinian Mystery existed.
Although there were festivals of Demeter throughout Greece, the true Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated at Eleusis only.
Eleusinian Mysteries, most famous of the secret religious rites of ancient Greece.
Yet Plato did take up many ideas from earlier Greek religion, especially from the Pythagorean brotherhood and from the Eleusinian communities, and often described his philosophy in terms derived from the mysteries.
He emphasized the Eleusinian mysteries which had been practiced by so many during the Republic.
We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
Famous religious agricultural festivals known as the Greater and the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries celebrating the sowing, sprouting, and reaping of the grain, were reenacted in this city.
One of the suburbs of Alexandria, the newly constructed Greek capital of Egypt, was called Eleusis after the city of Demeter in Greece, and the Eleusinian Mysteries were instituted in a Greco-Egyptian adaptation.
Eumolpus, mythical ancestor of the priestly clan of the Eumolpids at Eleusis, a town west of Athens, and the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the best known of the Greek mystery cults.
Examples from Classical Literature
So might the priests of old have regarded a Cook's tourist, asking to be personally conducted through the Eleusinian mysteries.
Nero sought admission into the Eleusinian mysteries, but was rejected because of the many slaughters connected with his name.
The temple of Neptune is supposed to have been near the sea, where traces now remain, composed of dark Eleusinian marble.
Particularly characteristic of this is the legend of the Eleusinian mysteries.
It was divided between the treasury of Zoroaster and that of the Eleusinian mysteries.
This fact is sometimes used as an argument in favour of the Egyptian origin of the Eleusinian mysteries.
Pausanias is the authority for a statement by the Phliasians that they imitated the Eleusinian mysteries.
Among rites of the backward races, none, perhaps, so closely resembles the Eleusinian mysteries as the tradition of the Pawnees.
At length a rising genius demonstrated how Virgil could not have described the Eleusinian mysteries in the sixth book of the neid.
The crier and torchbearer were important functionaries at the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries.
To her is attributed the institution of the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece, the most popular of all the ancient initiations.
Whence the prophetic Sybils, whence and what the Eleusinian mysteries?
In the Eleusinian mysteries, Bacchus bore the name of Iacchus.
At the outset, Lucius prays to Venus and Ceres and Proserpine, the tutelary deities of the Eleusinian mysteries, to restore his human form.
Additionally, the Eleusinian Mysteries allowed foreigners to participate in festivals featuring public feasting.
The Eleusinian temples had been erected in honour of the goddess Demeter.
I wondered greatly what Eleusinian mysteries its courts contained.
Among these was Kallias, the torch-bearer in the Eleusinian mysteries.
In memory of her sorrows Demeter establishes the Eleusinian mysteries.
Mr Bowden examines the Eleusinian mysteries, those of the Kabeiroi and the gods of Samothrace, the 'mother of the gods', Dionysus, Isis, and Mithras.
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In a bright mandorla between the two faces, a hand emerging from a lily holds a stalk of ripe wheat, triumphant sacrament of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Calitsis, 31, met McFadden when she was working as the costumer for his arts event the Eleusinian Mysteries, which will take place next month on an Italian island.
Choirene was a priestess of Demeter and Kore, an important position, for she oversaw the Eleusinian Mysteries, which celebrated Demeter's gift of corn.
A chronological survey of cults across the Greco-Roman world, the book begins with the worship of Demeter and Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the oldest known mysteries.
The Eleusinian mysteries, the Egyptian architecture, the Indian astronomy, the Greek sculpture, show that there always were seeing and knowing men in the planet.
The New Woman of the future will be the woman with the petticoats, she who shall restore the ancient Eleusinian mysteries of the silk skirt and the tea-gown.
