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Eleusis : Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Archetypal Images in Greek Religion, Volume 4).
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kerényi, Carl.
- Series:
- Bollingen Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eleusinian mysteries.
- Mythology, Greek.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- A landmark account of the Eleusinian Mysteries by one of the leading mythologists of the twentieth century The Sanctuary of Eleusis near Athens was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Reconstruction
- I. The Geographical and Chronological Setting
- The Sacred Road
- The Mysteries at the Time of Xerxes (480 B.C.) and of Valentinian ( A.D. 364)
- Testimonies to the Beatitude of the Initiates
- The End of the Mysteries
- The Question of the Origins
- II. The Mythological Setting
- No Drama Was Presented at Eleusis
- The Two Goddesses
- The Myths concerning Demeter
- Rape and Mourning
- Demeter's Journey to Hades
- III. The Lesser Mysteries and the Preparations for the Great Mysteries
- Myesis and Epopteia
- What Happened by the Ilissos?
- The Purification of Herakles
- The Cost of Initiation
- The Procession to Eleusis
- IV. The Secret of Eleusis
- Outside the Gates of the Sanctuary
- Through the Gateways and the Courtyard
- On the Threshold of the Telesterion
- In the Telesterion
- The Eleusinian Version of the Visio Beatifica
- Part Two
- Eubouleus
- V. A Hermeneutical Essay on the Mysteries
- Introductory Observations
- The Uniqueness of the Eleusinian Mysteries
- The Relation of the Mysteries to the Grain
- Pomegranate and Vine
- Duality
- Appendixes
- APPENDIX I: The Preparation and Effect of the Kykeon
- APPENDIX II: Concerning the Vessels That Were Carried on the Head in the Procession
- Notes List of Work Cited
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- List of Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-29067-9
- 0-691-28186-6
- 9780691281865
- OCLC:
- 1581077177
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