Events Tagged: "Eleusinian"

Eleusinian Mysteries established - secret rites of Demeter and Persephone, promise blessed afterlife, death penalty for revealing secrets

Alcibiades accused of profaning Mysteries - drunkenly mocks Eleusinian rites at party, flees Athens, sentenced to death in absentia

Eleusinian Mysteries ended - Alaric the Goth destroys sanctuary, 2000-year tradition ends, last hierophant laments gods have abandoned Greece