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Bronze Age Eleusis and the origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries
This book provides a synthesis of the archaeology of Eleusis during the Bronze Age, reconstructing the origins and early development of the Eleusinian Mysteries
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New York, NY
: Cambridge University Press
, 2015
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| Author Notes: | Michael B. Cosmopoulos |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Abbreviations (Other than Bibliographic); Introduction; Part I Myth and Cult; 1 Myths and Legends; Foundation Myths; The Rape of Persephone and the Homeric Hymn; Wars with Athens and the Synoecism; The Seven against Thebes; 2 The Theology of Demeter at Eleusis; Agricultural Fertility Festivals; The Eleusinian Mysteries; Definitions,; Priests and Officials,; Preliminary Initiation,; The Greater Mysteries,; The Kykeon,; Telete and Epopteia; Part II The Site and Its Exploration
- 3 Landscape and EnvironmentTopography and Geology; Water, Climate, Land Use; The Eleusinian Limestone; 4 The Exploration of Eleusis; Early Travelers; Later Travelers and the Dilettanti Expeditions 1765-1860; Systematic Excavations, 1882-1997; Publication of Material from Eleusis; Part III The Archaeology and Monuments of Eleusis; 5 Early Bronze Age; 6 Middle Bronze Age; Stratigraphy and Architecture; Burials; Pottery; Figurines; Metal, Stone, Bone Tools; Economic Organization; Subsistence; Trade; Production; Social and Political Organization; Religion and Ritual; The Transition to Mycenaean
- 7 Early MycenaeanStratigraphy and Architecture; Burials; Pottery; Painted Plaster; Economic Organization; Social and Political Organization; Religion; 8 The Period of the Palaces; Stratigraphy and Architecture; Burials; Pottery; Figurines; Spindle Whorls and Loomweights; Metal; Chipped and Stone Tools; Economic Organization; The Inscribed Stirrup Jar; Social and Political Organization; Religion; 9 The Post-Palatial Period; Stratigraphy and Architecture; Burials; Pottery; 10 The Post-Bronze Age History of the Sanctuary; The Protogeomeric and Geometric Periods; The Archaic Period
- The Classical PeriodThe Hellenistic Period; The Roman Period; The End of the Sanctuary; Part IV The Origins and Early Development of the Eleusinian Mysteries; 11 Theories about the Origins of the Mysteries; Diffusionist Theories; Indigenous Development Theories; 12 The Origins and Early Development of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Mycenaean Cult; Protogeometric and Geometric Cults; The Sanctification of Megaron B; The Addition of the Soteriological Element; Conclusion: Stages in the Formation of the Eleusinian Mysteries; Chronological Table; Notes; Bibliography; Index
