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Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1961.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Sacrificial Pyre; Apsidal temple ; The Sacred House ; The Cemetery ; Solonian Terrace ; Sacrificial pyre.; Solonian Telesterion ; Altar and stepped podium ; The Sacred Dances ; Burials and pot-burials of children. ; Altars of the Goddesses ; The Peisistratean Peribolos and its gates. ; City and Sanctuary ; The ""Kallichoron"" well.; The Area of the South Gate; Burials.