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Eleusis was a deme of Athens and most famous for its annual festival of the Mysteries in honour of Demeter and Persephone. The site was also an important fortress protecting Attica and held several other important festivals, notably the Thesmophoria...

Demeter was one of the oldest gods in the ancient Greek pantheon. Demeter was a goddess of agriculture and guaranteed the fertility of the earth. She protected both farming and vegetation. The close connection with the earth was inherited...

Statue of the deified Antinous represented as Asclepius, found in the outer court of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (Greece) which it apparently adorned, 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum of Eleusis)

The upper part of one of the caryatids that flanked the Lesser Propylaea of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The caryatid was made in Attica in about 50 BCE. (Eleusis Museum, Greece)

The Greater Propylaea at the Sanctuary of Eleusis (Greece) was a monumental gate probably built by Marcus Aurelius on the same site as an earlier gate from the time of Kimon, c. 170 CE - c. 180 CE.

The Greater Propylaea at the Sanctuary of Eleusis (Greece) was a monumental gate probably built by Marcus Aurelius on the same site as an earlier gate from the time of Kimon, c. 170 CE - c. 180 CE.

The Telesterion was a large rectangular hall, probably columned, in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (Greece). It served as the initiation Hall and Temple for the Eleusinian Mysteries. Date of construction: c. 435 BCE - 421 BCE

The Telesterion was a large rectangular hall, probably columned, in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis (Greece). It served as the initiation Hall and Temple for the Eleusinian Mysteries. Date of construction: c. 435 BCE - 421 BCE

The ruins of the East Triumphal Arch built by Antoninus Pius in the 2nd century CE outside the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis.

The Lesser Propylaea at Eleusis (Greece) was a small gateway to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore built in the 1st century BCE.