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When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160,
he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city,
on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at
one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The
details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest
since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is
one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony
exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls.
Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of
food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition
associated with human and agricultural fertility.
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