Situated at the crossroads between Athens, Boiotia, Megara, and Salamis, Eleusis was exposed to the changing fortunes in a connected world. From the Athenian perspective, Eleusis marked the fringes of their territory. From everybody else's point of view, it was a destination or a gateway: to Athens, the Saronic region and the Aegean, Central Greece, or the Peloponnese. In the midst of these itineraries, the Eleusinians had their own ideas about the world writ-large. This volume delves into the local horizon of the site, its agents and stakeholders, the stories that moved them, and the places where interactions took place.
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Hans Beck is Professor and Chair of Greek History at the University of Muenster. He has published widely on local constellations in Central Greece and the Peloponnese, including Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State (Chicago, 2020). He is the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Research Prize and an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Sebastian Scharff holds a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Humanities at the University of Trento. He has published extensively on Greek religion, interstate relations and ancient athletics, including Eid und Aussenpolitik (Steiner, 2016) and Hellenistic Athletes (CUP, 2024).
Preface
List of Figures and Tables
Contributors
1 Beyond Mysteries: Introduction to the Local Horizon of Ancient Eleusis
?Hans Beck and Sebastian Scharff
Part 1: Settings and Surroundings
2 Eleusis in Its Economic and Environmental Setting
?Anton Bonnier
3 Along the Mystery Highway: Eleusis and Thebes in the Archaic Age
?Hans Beck
4 Between Argos and Athens: Eleusis as a Contested Space
?Jeremy McInerney
Part 2: Saronic Dimensions
5 Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eleusis in a Saronic Context: Political Geography and Ritual Practice
?Sarah C. Murray
6 Eleusis in the Gulf of Distorting Mirrors: Demeter's Look-Alikes and Her Saronic Reflections
?Irene Polinskaya
7 Between Locality and Diffusion: ?leusis in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the First-Fruits Decree
?Christy Constantakopoulou
Part 3: Sites and Cults
8 Healing across the Gulf: Eleusis and the Asklepios Cult
?Roy van Wijk
9 Between ???????????? and ??????: Poseidon at and around Eleusis
?Shannon M. Dunn
10 The Eleusinian Deities in Ionia
?Julietta Steinhauer
11 Votive Reliefs from Eleusis in a Local, Regional, and Transregional Perspective
?Anja Kloeckner
Part 4: Civic Life
12 Listmaking, Accountability, and Gender in Eleusinian Myth and History
?Athena Kirk
13 Eleusis as a Place of Competition: the Eleusinian Games
?Sebastian Scharff
14 The Public Enactments of the Deme Eleusis: between Mysteries and Military
?Stephen Lambert
Part 5: Stories and Myths
15 Centrality Reconsidered: Eleusis, Athens, and Mythotopography
?Angela Ganter
16 Eleusis and Athens at War: Myth, Conflict, and Identity
?Oliver Grote
17 Eleusis, Theseus and the Burial of the 'Seven against Thebes'
?Christoph Michels
18 The Profanation of the Mysteries in the Attic Orators: between Rhetorical Use and Historical Evidence
?Priscilla Gontijo Leite
Part 6: Afterlives
19 Sacred Diplomacy: Eleusis as a Mediator between the Athenian Polis and the Roman Empire
?Margarita Sardak
20 Plutarch's Eleusis
?Chandra Giroux
21 Eleusis at the Intersection of Antiquity and Modernity: the mysteria, Altered Consciousness, and the Neuroscience of Transformational Experience
?Michelle Zerba
