Mysteries
event · 8 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages
mysteries · the mysteries · ceremonies · initiation · law concerning the Mysteries · rites · sacred rites · secret worship · superintendent of the Mysteries · the Mysteries
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe Mysteries2 mentions
Meno (Greek) · Characters (Greek)
and I believe you also would prefer it, if you were not compelled, as you were saying yesterday, to go away before the mysteries, and could stay awhile and be initiated.
mystery rites“Eleusis, Samothrace, Lemnos”2 mentions
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin) · Stromata (Greek)
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.
Stromata
The mystery rites, both pagan and Christian, marked by nocturnal timing and secrecy from the uninitiated.
For this reason too the initiations are held mostly by night, signifying the night-time contraction of the soul from the body.
seeing those who see, and gives the sacred rites.
And these rites—of what form are they to you?
Against Meidias
A sacred Athenian festival and institution invoked in both Meidias' offices and legal precedent.
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.
For it was you, men of Athens, who elected him—he being what he is—steward of the Paralus, and also commander of the cavalry, though he could not sit a horse in the processions through the market-place, and superintendent of the Mysteries, and sacrificer on one occasion, and buyer of the victims and all the rest of it.
he drives his wife to the Mysteries, or anywhere else that he wishes, with a pair of greys from Sicyon;
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.
Meno
Religious initiation rites which Meno reportedly had to leave before attending, invoked by Socrates as an analogy for a deeper level of teaching he withholds.
and I believe you also would prefer it, if you were not compelled, as you were saying yesterday, to go away before the mysteries, and could stay awhile and be initiated.
Characters
The Eleusinian religious festival, referenced twice by the garrulous man in his unsolicited stream of remarks.
the Mysteries are in Boedromion, the Apatouria in Pyanopsion, the rural Dionysia in Posideon.
and that Damippos set up the largest torch at the Mysteries;