Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries

I saw this old book in the archaelogical museum of Eleusis. The author was a dedicated man who searched the mysteries of Eleusis. He was a well respected professor of archaeology in Washington University. In the first chapters there are many archaeological information about excavations and their meanings in Eleusis. A well written historical perspective follows. Then we have a written description about the place of the mysteries and how it was during the centuries until the roman influence. In chapter nine there are many infos about the mysteries of Eleusis and what happened in each of the 9 days. Legomena, dromena, deiknymena. The book ends with some later references from the byzantine area.