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... Demeter's search for her daughter - would take place along the Sacred Way between Athens and the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis . During the procession , bawdy jokes and obscene gestures would apparently be exchanged , enhancing the ...
... Demeter's search for her daughter - would take place along the Sacred Way between Athens and the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis . During the procession , bawdy jokes and obscene gestures would apparently be exchanged , enhancing the ...
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... Demeter becomes , in effect , her daughter ; in growing up , Persephone becomes the woman . Like many women since , who grow up and possibly have children of their own only to discover that they share unanticipated links with their ...
... Demeter becomes , in effect , her daughter ; in growing up , Persephone becomes the woman . Like many women since , who grow up and possibly have children of their own only to discover that they share unanticipated links with their ...
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... Demeter , the longest of the group , probably dates from the seventh century B.C. and is one of our major sources of information about the rituals performed at Eleusis . The Homeric Hymn to Demeter tells the story of the abduction of ...
... Demeter , the longest of the group , probably dates from the seventh century B.C. and is one of our major sources of information about the rituals performed at Eleusis . The Homeric Hymn to Demeter tells the story of the abduction of ...
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Introduction to the Nature of Myth | 3 |
The Mycenaean Origins of Distinctively Greek Myth | 19 |
Roman Mythology | 25 |
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