Where Eleusis was
Eleusis was an Attic settlement, deme, and sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. The first securely attested cult dates to the late eighth century BCE. Earlier activity and the later Mysteries must be distinguished. Athenaeum places it in the Attica & Saronic Gulf region. The source gives a located position.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Eleusis
Where does the information about Eleusis come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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