Beyond Mysteries: the Local World of Ancient Eleusis (Religions in the Graeco-roman World)

Beck, Hans (EDT)/ Scharff, Sebastian (EDT)

Brill（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 476 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004719613
• DDC分類 292.08

Full Description

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.

Contents

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: Εleusis 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 Προσβατήριος and Πατρός: 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 Klöckner

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 mystēria, Altered Consciousness, and the Neuroscience of Transformational Experience

 Michelle Zerba