Eleusis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.S. Traill
Creators: J.S. Traill
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 09, 2019 11:21 AM
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History
Eleusis, located some 22 km west of Athens, was the site of the cult of Demeter and the sanctuary in which the Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated from the Bronze Age to the Roman Imperial period.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/579920
38.041101, 23.537401
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- None
- Hiera Oikia at Eleusis located at Eleusis (750 BC - 550 BC)
- Rharion Pedion located near Eleusis (unspecified date range)
- Telesterion located at Eleusis (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 59 B2 Eleusis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: deme and fort, Eleusis [VIII - coast - 11?]
J.S. Traill, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Eleusis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/579920> [accessed: 26 April 2025]
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