Greece: Eleusis and the Mysteries

The topic:

Eleusis was a sanctuary just outside of the city of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Demeter and Persephone / Kore, where a mystery cult was located. Anyone who spoke Greek could be initiated into the Mysteries, which promised a better afterlife to the initiates. Studies exploring Eleusis and the Mysteries will deal with both archaeology and Greek religion, and there is a good deal of interesting iconography associated with the goddesses worshipped and the mystery cult itself.

Bibliography is in American Journal of Archaeology format and dates to 2007, so you will need to look into newer articles about the topic

Arnott, W.G. 1972. "From Aristophanes to Menander." Greece & Rome 19:65-80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/642525

Boardman, J. 1975. "Herakles, Peisistratos and Eleusis." JHS 95:1-12. http://www.jstor.org/stable/630865

Bookidis, N. 1987. "The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: An archaeological approach to ancient religion." AJA 91:480-1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/505371

Cavanaugh, Maureen B. 1996. ­Eleusis and Athens: Documents on Finance, Religion and Politics In the Fifth Century BC. Atlanta: Scholars Press. (Available at GMU)

Clinton, K. 1980. "A Law in the City Eleusinion Concerning the Mysteries." Hesperia 49:258-88. http://www.jstor.org/stable/147992

Clinton, K. Eleusis The Inscriptions on Stone: Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and Public Documents of the Deme. Athens: The Archaeological Society at Athens Library. (Available at LoC, UVA)

Clinton, K. 1992. Myth and Cult. Stockholm: Paul Astroms forlag. (Available at Loc, UVA)

Clinton, K. 1974. The Sacred Officials of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1006226

Cosmoloulos, Michael B. 2003. Greek Mysteries: The Archaeology and Ritual of Ancient Greek Secret Cults. London and New York: Routledge. (Available at UVA)

Dow, S. 1965. A Sacred Calendar of Eleusis. Harvard: Harvard University Press. (Available at LoC, UVA)

Edwards, C.M. 1986. "The Running Maiden from Eleusis and the Early Classical Image of Hekate." AJA 90:307-18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/505689

Endsjo, D.O. "To Lock Up Eleusis: A question of liminal space." Numen 47:351-86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3270305

Golden, M. 1997. Inventing Ancient Culture. London and New York: Routledge. (Available at GMU)

Holloway, R.R. 1958. "The Date of the Eleusis relief." AJA 62:403-8. http://www.jstor.org/stable/502064

Jones, M.W. 2001. "Doric Measure and Architectural Design 2: A modular reading of the classical temple." AJA 105:675-713. http://www.jstor.org/stable/507412

Mylonas, G.E. 1961. Eleusis and the Elusinian Mysties. Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Available at NOVA)

Mylonas, G.E. 1932. "Eleusis In the Bronze Age." AJA 36:104-17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/498653

Oakley, J.H.; Coulson, W.D.E.; Olga, P. Ed. Athenian Potters and Painters. Oxford: Oxbow Books. (Available at GMU)

Olga, P. Ed. 1997. Greek Offerings: Essays on Greek Art in Honour of John Boardman. Oxford: Oxbow Books. (Available at UVA)

Palinkas, J.L. 2008. Eleusinian Gateways: Entrances to the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis and the City Eleusinion in Athens. Dissertation, Emory University: https://etd.library.emory.edu/view/record/pid/emory:15539.

Parker, R. 1991. "The 'Hymn to Demeter' and the 'Homeric Hymns'." Greece & Rome 38:1-17. http://www.jstor.org/stable/643104

Pratt, L. 2000. "The Old Women of Ancient Greece and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter." Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) 130:41-65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/284305

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Rhodes, P.J. 2001. "Public Documents In the Greek States: Archives and inscriptions, part I." Greece & Rome 48:33-44. http://www.jstor.org/stable/826868

Ridgway, B.S. 1987. "Ancient Greek Women and Art: The material evidence." AJA 91:399-409. http://www.jstor.org/stable/505361

Robertson, N.D. 1998. "The Two Processions to Eleusis and the Program of the Mysteries." The American Journal of Philology 119:547-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1561917

Segal, C. 1985. "Messages To the Underworld: An aspect of poetic immortalization in pindar." The American Journal of Philology 106:199-212. http://www.jstor.org/stable/294643

Shear, T.L., Jr. 1982. "The Demolished Temple at Eleusis." Hesperia Supplements 20:128,140 & 210-212. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1353954

Sokolowski, F. 1957. "A New Decree from Athens on the Eleusinian Mysteries." Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 88:131-4. http://www.jstor.org/stable/283899

Travlos, J. 1949. "The Topography of Eleusis." Hesperia 18:138-47. http://www.jstor.org/stable/147001

Wasson, R. Gorgon; Hofmann, Albert; Ruck, Carl A.P. 1978. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries. New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. (Available at LoC, UVA)