Eleusis

Eleusis

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settlement

Events
  1. Demeter looks for Persephone in Eleusis
  2. A woman makes Demeter laugh as she grieves for Persephone
  3. A group of centaurs is hidden in a mountain by Poseidon after Hercules’ attack
  4. Hercules goes to be initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries
  5. Theseus kills Cercyon
  6. Cercyon compels passers-by to wrestle and kills them
  7. Demeter comes to Eleusis in the likeness of a human woman
  8. Demeter comes in disguise to Celeus’ house
  9. Demeter is appointed Demophon’s nurse
  10. Praxithea sees Demeter put Demophon into the fire
  11. Demeter gives Triptolemus a winged chariot and wheat
  12. Demeter is welcomed to Attica by Celeus at Eleusis
  13. Eumolpus flees to the Eleusinians and becomes friends with them
  14. The Eleusinians ask Eumolpus’s help in war with the Athenians
  15. Eumolpus and his large force of Thracians ally with the Eleusinians and fight the Athenians
  16. Erechtheus defeats Eleusinians in battle
  17. Erechtheus kills Immaradus in battle
People
  1. Celeus
  2. Cercyon
  3. Demeter
  4. Demophon
  5. Erechtheus
  6. Eumolpus
  7. Eumolpus
  8. Hercules
  9. Iambe
  10. Ismarus
  11. Metanira
  12. Poseidon
  13. Praxithea
  14. Pylius
  15. Theseus
  16. Triptolemus
Groups
  1. Athenians
  2. Centaurs
  3. Eleusinians
  4. Thracians
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.1
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.4
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.12
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.7
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.3
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 14.2
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.3
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 31.3
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 35.2
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 36.3
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 37.4
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 38.5
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 38.8
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 39.1
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 39.4
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 12.4
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 14.1
  18. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 14.2
  19. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 14.3
  20. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 24.6
  21. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 30.4
  22. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 4.2
  23. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 4.6
  24. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 1.5
  25. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 14.1
  26. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 15.7
  27. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 15.1
  28. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 31.7
  29. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 24.2
  30. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 31.11
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