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Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
By (Author) George Emmanuel Mylonas
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th February 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Archaeological theory
930.1
Paperback
416
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
The 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