CLAS 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Eleusinian Mysteries, Triptolemus, Pomegranate
5 Oct 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
The myth of demeter and persephone: hades abducted persephone, daughter of demeter, while she was playing in the meadow. It was zeus"s way of pleasing his brother. She sat at her new temple and mourned for her daughter: as a result, none of the crops grew that year. Underworld: hades" basic character: god of fertility, violent in nature, god of agricultural wealth. Triptolemus: depicted as the messenger of demeter. Taught and spread her arts of agriculture to new lands: merged in identity with demopho n (or as his brother) Is a judge of the dead in plato"s version. The eleusinian mysteries: hymn to demeter very important since it explains the nature of her worship at eleusis, 14 miles from athens, was the center of the religious observance in honour of demeter and persephone. Fasting: carrying of torches, drinking kykeon, wearing a special dress (veil of demeter)
