Mysteries
event · 7 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages
mysteries · ceremonies · initiation · law concerning the Mysteries · rites · sacred rites · secret worship · superintendent of the Mysteries · the Mysteries · the mysteries
spoken of as
2 expressionsmystery rites“Eleusis, Samothrace, Lemnos”2 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Stromata (Greek)
I leave aside Samothrace and those mysteries of Lemnos, "approached by night, in secret worship, thick-set with woodland hedges" — which, when unfolded and brought back to a rational account, teach us rather the nature of things than the nature of the gods.
The Mysteries1 mention
Characters (Greek)
and that Damippos set up the largest torch at the Mysteries;
in the texts
On the Mysteries
The sacred rites whose profanation and alleged private celebration form the first charge.
Yet your commander, Alcibiades, has been holding celebrations of the Mysteries in a private house, and others with him;
I shall deal first with the actual charge which furnished grounds for the lodging of the information that has brought me into court today, profanation of the Mysteries.
and at the same time you are here as initiates who have witnessed the rites of the Two Goddesses, in order that you may punish those who are guilty of impiety and protect those who are innocent.
On the Nature of the Gods
Secret initiatory rites at Eleusis, Samothrace, and Lemnos, whose rationalized meaning is said to concern nature rather than gods.
I leave aside Samothrace and those mysteries of Lemnos, "approached by night, in secret worship, thick-set with woodland hedges" — which, when unfolded and brought back to a rational account, teach us rather the nature of things than the nature of the gods.
Stromata
The mystery rites, both pagan and Christian, marked by nocturnal timing and secrecy from the uninitiated.
And these rites—of what form are they to you?
seeing those who see, and gives the sacred rites.
Things not to be spoken, for mortals uninitiated to know.
Against Meidias
A sacred Athenian festival and institution invoked in both Meidias' offices and legal precedent.
he drives his wife to the Mysteries, or anywhere else that he wishes, with a pair of greys from Sicyon;
He had won a commercial suit against Menippus, but being, as he alleged, unable to catch him sooner, he had arrested him while he was staying here for the Mysteries.
First of all then, to begin with the most recent condemnation, the Assembly gave its verdict against Euandrus of Thespiae for profanation of the Mysteries on the charge of Menippus, a fellow from Caria.
Philip’s Letter
Religious celebration from which the Megarians were excluded after an envoy-related outrage.
Yet violation of the rights of heralds and ambassadors is regarded by all men as an act of impiety, and by none more than by you, if I may judge from the fact that, when the Megarians arrested Anthemocritus, your Assembly went to the length of excluding them from the celebration of the mysteries, and actually erected a statue before the city gates to commemorate the outrage.
Third Olynthiac
A religious festival used to date the late dispatch of Charidemus.
In that month, with a great effort, after the celebration of the Mysteries you dispatched Charidemus with ten ships, unmanned, and a sum of five talents of silver.
Characters
The Eleusinian religious festival, referenced twice by the garrulous man in his unsolicited stream of remarks.
and that Damippos set up the largest torch at the Mysteries;
the Mysteries are in Boedromion, the Apatouria in Pyanopsion, the rural Dionysia in Posideon.