Eleusis
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a place in Attica · fragrant Eleusis · land of sweet Eleusis · the Temple of Demeter · the precinct at Eleusis · this Eleusinian land
in the texts
The Histories
Location near Athens where Tellus died in battle defending Athens
when the Athenians were fighting their neighbors in Eleusis, he came to help, routed the enemy, and died very finely.
Cleomenes broke in as far as Eleusis with a great host, and the Boeotians, by a concerted plan, took Oenoe and Hysiae, districts on the borders of Attica, while the Chalcidians attacked on another side and raided lands in Attica.
When the armies were about to join battle, the Corinthians, coming to the conclusion that they were acting wrongly, changed their minds and departed.
Protrepticus
Site in Attica of the Demeter/Kore mysteries and the Baubo episode.
For Deo, wandering in search of her daughter Kore about Eleusis (this is a place in Attica), grew weary and sat down at a well in her grief.
" Deo and Kore have already become a mystic drama, and Eleusis celebrates with torches their wandering, the rape, and the mourning.
And the daughters of Celeus, are they not buried at Eleusis?
Hellenica
A town near Athens, first used by the Thirty as a planned refuge and the site of their entrapment of its inhabitants, later a Spartan staging ground, and finally a place of exile under the peace settlement until its own final reconciliation with Athens.
Accordingly, Lysander proceeded to Eleusis and busied himself with gathering a large force of Peloponnesian hoplites;
but at a later period, on learning that the men at Eleusis were hiring mercenary troops, they took the field with their whole force against them, put to death their generals when they came for a conference, and then, by sending to the others their friends and kinsmen, persuaded them to become reconciled.
Accordingly Critias and the rest of the Thirty, having issued orders to the cavalry to accompany them, went to Eleusis.
On the Mysteries
Sacred place associated with the performance of the Mysteries.
It was on our return from Eleusis, after the information had already been lodged against me.
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek sacred site famous for the Eleusinian Mysteries.
I pass over Eleusis, that holy and august shrine, "where the nations at the world's edge are initiated";
Stromata
Eleusis, site of the famous Greek mystery cult, whose sacred precinct's founding is dated within the king-list.
Under Lynceus were the rape of the maiden and the founding of the precinct at Eleusis, and the husbandry of Triptolemus, and the coming of Cadmus to Thebes, and the kingdom of Minos.
Against Aristogeiton I
Attic deme or locality associated with Philocrates.
But of the rest of our citizens—to confine the reproach to as few as possible—his pupil, or, if you like, his teacher, Philocrates of Eleusis, is the only one whom I account as such, not as if there were not more (for I would that no one else found satisfaction in Aristogeiton), but I have no right publicly to bring a charge against other citizens which I shrink from bringing against you.
Against Callicles
A place whose farm-lands are cited as having suffered floods.
And yet consider, men of the jury, how many people in the farm-lands have suffered from floods in Eleusis and in other places.
Against Meidias
Site of Meidias' imposing private house.
He has built at Eleusis a mansion huge enough to overshadow his neighbors;
Apollodorus Against Callippus
The place associated with Megacleides.
Lycon had lent to Megacleides of Eleusis and his brother Thrasyllus the sum of forty minae for a voyage to Acê but, when they changed their minds and decided not to risk the voyage to that point, Lycon, after making some complaints against Megacleides regarding the interest, and believing that he had been deceived, quarrelled with him and went to law for the purpose of recovering his loan.
On the Crown
Place where Athenian forces are to assemble as a show of readiness.
Next, let all men of military age, and all the cavalry, march out to Eleusis, and show the world that you are under arms.
therefore be it resolved by the Council and People of Athens, after offering prayers and sacrifices to the gods and heroes who guard the city and country of the Athenians, and after taking into consideration their ancestors’ merits, in that they ranked the preservation of the liberties of Greece above the claims of their own state, that two hundred ships be launched, and that the Admiral sail into …
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The sanctuary site of the Eleusinian Mysteries where Archias, then hierophant, was convicted of improperly sacrificing a victim brought by the courtesan Sinopê.
Among the charges brought against him was, that at the feast of the harvest he sacrificed on the altar in the court at Eleusis a victim brought by the courtesan Sinop, although it was not lawful to offer victims on that day, and the sacrifice was not his to perform, but the priestess’.
Suppliants
The sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis where the entire dramatized action of supplication takes place.
Now it chanced, that I had left my house and come to offer sacrifice on behalf of the earth’s crop at this shrine, where first the fruitful corn showed its bristling shocks above the soil.
—The Temple of Demeter at Eleusis.
Hymn 2 to Demeter
Eleusis is the mortal city where Demeter is received, where her temple is built, and where her mysteries are taught.
She came to the stronghold of fragrant Eleusis, and there finding dark-cloaked Demeter in her temple, spake to her and uttered winged words:
And now, queen of the land of sweet Eleusis and sea-girt Paros and rocky Antron, lady, giver of good gifts, bringer of seasons, queen Deo, be gracious, you and your daughter all beauteous Persephone, and for my song grant me heart-cheering substance.
And no one of men or deep-bosomed women knew her when they saw her, until she came to the house of wise Celeus who then was lord of fragrant Eleusis.
The Rights of War and Peace
Town near Athens captured by Demetrius.
Plutarch says that when Demetrius had invested Attica, and taken the neighbouring towns of Eleusis and Rhamnus, he ordered the master and pilot of a ship, attempting to convey provisions into Athens, to be hanged, as he designed to reduce that city by famine:
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
Site of the battle at which Dicaeogenes (I.), the speaker's great-grandfather's father, died while serving as general.
), while acting as general when the battle took place at Eleusis;
On the Estate of Hagnias
A deme of Attica where both Theophon's bequeathed land and one of Stratocles's houses were located.
for Theophon, his wife's brother, at his death adopted one of his daughters and left her his property, consisting of land at Eleusis worth two talents, 60 sheep, 100 goats, furniture, a fine horse which he rode when he was a cavalry commander, and all the rest of his goods and chattels.
His property comprised land at Thria worth two and a half talents, a house at Melite which cost 3000 drachmae, and another at Eleusis which cost 500 drachmae.
On The Estate Of Pyrrhus
The deme of Dorotheus, one of the witnesses taken to Besa.
Thus, when Xenocles went to our factory at the mines at Besa, he did not think it sufficient to rely on any chance person who happened to be there as witness regarding the eviction, but took with him from Athens Diophantus of Sphettus, who defended him in the former case, and Dorotheus of Eleusis, and his brother Philochares, and many other witnesses, having invited them to make a journey of nearl …