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Book SynopsisThe most famous conspiracy of silence in the history of antiquity is examined here by one of the three archaeologists entrusted by the Archaeological Society of Athens with the final excavations of the Sanctuary. He traces the history of the cult in the archaeological remains, from the first traces of habitation at the site in the Middle Bronze Age
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. xi*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xv*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xix*I. INTRODUCTION: LEGENDS AND HISTORY, pg. 1*II. EARLY HISTORY AND REMAINS, pg. 23*III. ELEUSIS IN THE EARLY CENTURIES OF THE HISTORIC ERA, pg. 55*IV. THE PEISISTRATEAN PERIOD (H) ca. 550-510 B.C., pg. 77*V. THE KIMONIAN AND PERIKLEAN ERA ( F AND I) ca. 480-404 B.C., pg. 106*VI. THE FOURTH CENTURY AND THE HELLENISTIC ERA (K), pg. 130*VII. ELEUSIS IN ROMAN TIMES (L), pg. 155*VIII. ART AND ELEUSIS, pg. 187*IX. THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES, pg. 224*APPENDIX. THEORY AND FACT. THE WRITINGS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIAN FATHERS AND MODERN INTERPRETATIONS, pg. 287*GLOSSARY, pg. 317*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 321*INDEX, pg. 325*ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. 347
