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 most venerable mystery cult.
Despite the tremendous popularity of the Eleusinian Mysteries,
their origins are unknown. Because they are lost in an era without
written records, they can only be reconstructed with the help of
archaeology. This book provides a much-needed synthesis of the
archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age and reconstructs the
formation and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The
discussion of the origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries is
complemented with discussions of the theology of Demeter and an
update on the state of research in the archaeology of Eleusis from
the Bronze Age to the end of antiquity.
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