Bronze Age Eleusis and the origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries / Michael B. Cosmopoulos.

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"For more than one thousand years, people from every corner of the Greco-Roman world sought the hope for a blessed afterlife through initiation into the Mysteries of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. In antiquity itself and in our memory of antiquity, the Eleusinian Mysteries stand out as the oldest and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cosmopoulos, Michael B., 1963- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Bronze age > Greece > Eleusis.
Eleusis (Greece) > Antiquities.
Eleusinian mysteries.
Sacred space > Greece > Eleusis.
Eleusis (Greece) > Religion.
Demeter > (Greek deity)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Bronze age.
Religion.
Sacred space.
Greece > Eleusis.
Physical Description:xvii, 227 pages ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. Myth and Cult
  • 1. Myths and legends
  • 2. The theology of Demeter at Eleusis
  • Part II. The Site and its Exploration
  • 3. Landscape and environment
  • 4. The exploration of Eleusis
  • Part III. The Archaeology and Monuments of Eleusis
  • 5. Early Bronze Age
  • 6. Middle Bronze Age
  • 7. Early Mycenaean
  • 8. The period of the palaces (LH IIIA2 to LH IIIB)
  • 9. The post-palatial period
  • 10. The post-Bronze Age history of the Sanctuary
  • Part IV. The Origins and Early Development of the Eleusinian Mysteries
  • 11. Theories about the origins of the Mysteries
  • 12. The origins and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries.