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3 > In that September of 128 the squalid , narrow streets of ancient Athens were crowded for the annual celebration of the Great Mysteries of Eleusis to which people flocked from all over the world . These mysteries were the immediate ...
3 > In that September of 128 the squalid , narrow streets of ancient Athens were crowded for the annual celebration of the Great Mysteries of Eleusis to which people flocked from all over the world . These mysteries were the immediate ...
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Eleusis , situated on a rocky outcrop facing a bay of the sea , was the setting for one of the seminal myths of the ancient world . Persephone ( or Kore ) , the daughter of Demeter the goddess of the earth , had been forcibly taken down ...
Eleusis , situated on a rocky outcrop facing a bay of the sea , was the setting for one of the seminal myths of the ancient world . Persephone ( or Kore ) , the daughter of Demeter the goddess of the earth , had been forcibly taken down ...
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36 The sculpture of Antinous erected after his death in the outer courtyard of Eleusis captures this instant in his life , though officially it depicts him as the god Dionysos Zagreus , another divinity of suffering and resurrection ...
36 The sculpture of Antinous erected after his death in the outer courtyard of Eleusis captures this instant in his life , though officially it depicts him as the god Dionysos Zagreus , another divinity of suffering and resurrection ...
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