Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries
Morford and Lenardon, Chapter Twelve
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Homeric Hymn to Demeter / Outline of Homeric Hymn to Demeter / Demeter Slides / Eleusinian Mysteries / Eleusinian Mysteries: Some Documents
Demeter’s Grief, Anger and Retaliation
Demeter Comes to Eleusis and the Palace of Celeus
Demeter Nurses Demophoon
Hades and Persephone and Her Eating of the Pomegranate
Demeter’s Ecstatic Reunion with Persephone
Demeter Restores Fertility and Establishes the Mysteries
Bernini, Rape of Proseperpina
Interpretations of the Hymn
death and rebirth of the vegetation deity
allegory for spiritual resurrection
aetiology for the seasons
Triptolemus
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Demeter in the Modern World
Ceres and Cereal
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