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Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth

Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth

Bookidis, Nancy
Stroud, Ronald S.

Paperback

Series: Corinth Notes, Book 2

Religion General ArchaeologyAncient Greece

ISBN10: 0876616716
ISBN13: 9780876616710
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
Published: Nov 21 1987
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.31
Language: English
When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.

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