City Eleusinion at Athens
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 15, 2020 09:34 AM
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History
tags:
Thesmophoria,
Demeter
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of ancient Athens. It was the urban “branch” of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis in use during the Archaic and Classical periods.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/650003009
37.9728361, 23.7247805
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the City Eleusinion (550 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- City Eleusinion (English, modern)
- Ελευσίνιο (Eleusinion: Modern Greek, 550 BC - 30 BC)
- Ελευσίνιο εν ἄστει (Eleusínio en astei: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 30 BC)
- City Eleusinion at Athens connection Athenae (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), architectural complex
- See Further:
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- Agora Monument: Eleusinion
- Clinton 1974
- Clinton, K. 1980. "A law in the city Eleusinion concerning the mysteries." Hesperia 49:258-88, pls. 69-73.
- Cole 1994
- Miles 1998
- Miles 2015
- Palinkas 2008
- The Ancient City of Athens (Stoa.org): Eleusinion in the City (City Eleusinion)
- Wikipedia (English) Eleusinion
Pleiades
Denitsa Dzhigova, and Jeffrey Becker, 'City Eleusinion at Athens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/650003009> [accessed: 26 April 2025]
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