The Great Eleusinian Relief (Greek: Μεγάλο Ανάγλυφο Ελευσινίων Μυστηρίων) is a large marble relief kept in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens in...

The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone...

Once a year the great Eleusinian procession travelled from Athens to Eleusis, along the Sacred Way. Eleusis was the site of the Eleusinian Mysteries, or...

vegetation goddess, and her mother Demeter were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which promised the initiated a happy afterlife. The origins...

death. She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries, a religious tradition that predated the Olympian pantheon and...

 'Bull-hitcher'), was a hero of Eleusis in Greek mythology, central to the Eleusinian Mysteries and is worshipped as the inventor and patron of agriculture...

Funerary naiskos of Aristonautes Funerary Stela of Demokleides Great Eleusinian Relief Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros Heracles of Antikythera Hermes...

Ancient Greece portal Ancient Rome portal Visual arts portal Great Eleusinian Relief Saint Demetra Interpretatio graeca Pandermalis 2016, p. 108. Basilopoulos...

preserved. Greece portal Ancient Greece portal Grave Stele of Dexileos Great Eleusinian Relief Grave Stele of Hegeso "Η Επιτύμβια Στήλη της Παμφίλης και της Δημητρίας...

Camirus on Rhodes under Alfred Biliotti begins (continues to 1864). Great Eleusinian Relief in Eleusis, Greece. Vigna Randanini Jewish catacombs in Rome. J...

group." Eventually, from the symbolic Great Round, new psychic constellations are articulated, e.g., the Eleusinian Mysteries. Increasingly, opportunities...

aspect of Zeus; or the twice-born son of Zeus and the mortal Semele. The Eleusinian Mysteries identify him with Iacchus, the son or husband of Demeter. Most...

writes: "This bas-relief takes us to the very heart of the 'Eleusinian question,' its mysteries, and the controversial issue of the Eleusinian entheogen’s psychopharmacology...

romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshipped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and...

p. 821. Clinton, Kevin (1992). Myth and Cult: The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Stockholm. pp. 105–107.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing...

are decorated with emblems and items associated with the rituals of the Eleusinian Mysteries, such as ears of corn, rosettes, cakes, and bundles of myrtle...

resulting from the use of different materials. Materials used included Eleusinian thin slabs (called "titanolithos") and Pentelic marble in the superstructure...

riches from below. This deity was a mixture of the Greek god Hades and the Eleusinian icon Ploutos, and from this he also received a priestess, which was not...

Bouzyges Cadmus – the Phoenician founder of Thebes Cyamites – of the Eleusinian mysteries who presided over the cultivation of Fava beans. Diomedes Erechtheus...

second Metroon in the Athenian suburb of Agrae was associated with the Eleusinian Mysteries. At the end of the fifth century BC, a Metroon was established...

literary promise and in 1881 published a long poem on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. He attempted to make a living as a journalist, a publisher's...

dedicated to Demeter and Kore (Persephone). It was the central hub of Eleusinian Mysteries within Athens and the starting point for the annual procession...

appears in depictions of Athena's birth from Zeus' forehead. There was a relief sculpture of Prometheus with Pandora on the base of Athena's cult statue...

narrative told by Bellerophon's grandson Glaucus (who was named after his great-grandfather), which recounted Bellerophon's myth. In this narrative, Bellerophon's...

Greco-Roman world. They were modeled on other mystery rites, particularly the Eleusinian mysteries in honor of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone, and...

Because of this association, Hecate was one of the chief goddesses of the Eleusinian Mysteries, alongside Demeter and Persephone, and there was a temple dedicated...

enjoying himself. Iamblichus writes that Delos Mysteries (similar to the Eleusinian Mysteries) were established. Strabo writes that in 166 BC, the Romans...

month of Anthesterion (February–March) as a form of initiation of the Great Eleusinian Mysteries. The Hill of Agrai extends as far as the Stadion and is known...

The Mourning Athena relief (c. 470-460 BC) Attic red-figure kylix showing Athena slaying the Giant Enceladus (c. 550–500 BC) Relief of Athena and Nike...

retinue. Antinous accompanied Hadrian during his attendance of the annual Eleusinian Mysteries in Athens, and was with him when he killed the Marousian lion...