Figures
2.1 Slope raster. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 26
2.2 Pollen record from maritime sediment core extracted from the Eleusis Bay. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 28
2.3 Eleusis: AP, API & OJC. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 30
2.4 Eleusis: cerealia, olea and vitis. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 30
2.5 A. Cerealia, B. Olea, C. Vitis. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 32
2.6 Binned pollen data from the Eleusis Bay record with stable oxygen isotope data from three cave archives. Image credit: Anton Bonnier 37
3.1 Roads and infrastructures in the borderlands between Boiotia and Attica. Map from Fachard 2017, reprinted with permission. Image credit: Sylvian Fachard 44
3.2 Reorganization of ritual space in the Sanctuary of Demeter at Eleusis, eighth to sixth centuries BCE (from Rönnberg 2020, reprinted with permission). Image credit: Maximilian Rönnberg 52
3.3a/b Terracotta idols from Eleusis, Collection Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Tübingen, inv. no. 5626 (from Rönnberg 2020, reprinted with permission. Photograph by Thomas Zachmann). Photo credit: Maximilian Rönnberg 60
3.4 Spread of Demeter sanctuaries between Thebes and Attica. Image credit: Hans Beck 64
4.1a/b Set of MH cist graves from the West Cemetery, Eleusis. From Mylonas 1975, pl. 145a. Photo credit: Reproduced by permission of the Archives of the Athens Archaeological Society 87
4.2 Gorgons on the Polyphemos Proto-Attic neck amphora, ca. 650 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 2360. Photo credit: Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license 89
5.1 Saronic coastal and near-coastal sites occupied during the early Mycenaean period. Image credit: Sarah C. Murray 104
5.2 Saronic coastal and near-coastal sites occupied during the late Mycenaean period. Image credit: Sarah C. Murray 105
5.3 Saronic coastal and near-coastal sites occupied during the LH IIIC middle/late period. Image credit: Sarah C. Murray 114
5.4 The Islet of Modi, site of a short-lived LH IIIC settlement. Photo credit: Sarah C. Murray 114
5.5 Saronic coastal and near-coastal sites occupied during the Protogeometric period. Image credit: Sarah C. Murray 116
5.6 Votive plaques dedicated near Megaron B in the late Geometric period (Travlos 1983, 337, fig. 16). Photo credit: John Travlos 122
6.1 Attestations of Demeter cults and her ‘look-alikes’ in the Saronic Gulf and adjacent regions. Image credit: Irene Polinskaya 135
8.1 Larger map of Asklepieia mentioned. Image credit: Roy van Wijk 179
8.2 Asklepieia in Saronic Gulf. Image credit: Roy van Wijk 180
9.1 Fragment of a decree concerning sacrifices (IG I³ 5). Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 553. Photo credit: Kevin Clinton and Cornell University Library Digital Collections. Copyright © Hellenic Ministry of Culture (L. 4858/2021) (Eleusis Archaeological Site and Archaeological Museum are under the jurisdiction of the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica/ Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development) 192
9.2 Eleusis forecourt with relevant structures labeled, facing southwest. Photo credit: Shannon M. Dunn 192
9.3 Marble statue fragment with base, horse head, and sandaled feet. Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 5097. Photo credit: Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica. Copyright ©Hellenic Ministry of Culture (L. 4858/2021) (Eleusis Archaeological Site and Archaeological Museum are under the jurisdiction of the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica/ Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development) 195
9.4a/b Attic Pelike, 480–470 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek IN 2695. A: Triptolemos between Demeter and Persephone; B: Theseus between Poseidon and Amphitrite. Photo credits: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen / Ole Haupt 198
9.5a/b Red-figure Attic skyphos by Makron (painter) and Hieron (potter). Ca. 500–480 BCE. Found in Brygos Tomb, Capua, Italy. British Museum 1873,0820.375. Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum 199
9.6 Hellenistic poros limestone relief disc. ASCSA Agora Archive Number 2013.03.0053; Object S 1194. Photo by Craig Mauzy. Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens City, Ancient Agora, ASCSA: Agora Excavations. Photo credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports/Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development (H.O.C.RE.D.) 202
9.7 Marble statuette of Lateran Poseidon. Archaeological Museum of Eleusis 5087. Photo credit: Shannon M. Dunn. Copyright ©Hellenic Ministry of Culture (L. 4858/2021) (Eleusis Archaeological Site and Archaeological Museum are under the jurisdiction of the Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica/ Hellenic Ministry of Culture/ Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development) 205
10.1 Blocks a and b of the architrave of the temple of Demeter and Kore. Photo credit: Musa Kadıoğlu. Reprinted, with permission, from Kadıoğlu 2021 226
10.2 Block 3 of the architrave of the temple of Demeter and Kore. Photo credit: Ceccarelli 226
11.1 Comella 2002: 78 map 8 244
11.2 Comella 2002: 64 map 7 245
11.3 Comella 2002: 140 map 11 245
11.4 Comella 2002: 126 map 10 246
11.5 Paris, Louvre Ma 752. Photo credit: 2006 Musée du Louvre / Daniel Lebée/ Carine Deambrosis, https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010279050 246
11.6 Athens, NM 126, Arachne-ID 1172519: D-DAI-ATH D-DAI-ATH-2001-0629_181059,09.jpg. Photo credit: H.R. Goette 247
11.7 Athens, NM 3572. Photo credit: Arachne-ID 1194639: D-DAI-ATH-NM 4971 248
11.8 Eleusis, Museum Inv. 5079. Photo credit: Arachne-ID 1065678: D-DAI-ATH-Eleusis-0106 249
11.9 Eleusis, Museum Inv. 5079. Photo credit: Arachne-ID 1065678, Detail: D-DAI-ATH-1990-1161 249
12.1 I Eleusis 52, Side A. Photo credit: Kevin Clinton 266
12.2 Rubrics on I Eleusis 52. Photo credit: Kevin Clinton 268
13.1 Fragment of a large Imperial inscription referring to the Eleusinia (I Eleusis 450 [= IG II² 3159]). Photo credit: Christian Mann 276
20.1 Plutarchan mentions of the mysteries and items related to the mysteries in the ancient world. Image credit: Chandra Giroux 424
20.2 The mysteries in Plutarch’s works. Image credit: Chandra Giroux 426
20.3 Divinities associated with the mysteries in the ancient world and the percentage of their mentions in Plutarch’s works. Image credit: Chandra Giroux 426
20.4 Locations of mystery cults mentioned by Plutarch. Image credit: Ancient World Mapping Center / Marian Helm 428
20.5 Plutarch’s Eleusinian Mentions. Image credit: Chandra Giroux 433
20.6 The Eleusinian Mysteries in Plutarch’s works. Image credit: Chandra Giroux 434
21.1 Demeter with Poppies. Bas relief, first century CE. Archaeological Museum of Corinth. Photo credit: Wiki Commons 453
21.2 Demeter and Persephone (Exaltation of the Flower). Bas relief, 470–460 BCE. Louvre, Paris. Photo credit: Wiki Commons 454
Tables
5.1 Characteristics of late Mycenaean and ritual sites in the Saronic coastal region 112
5.2 Late Mycenaean sites reused in apparent ritual during the Geometric period 119
6.1 Northern, Western, and Central Saronic Gulf 135
6.2 Southern Argolid – Hermionis 136
6.3 Northeast Peloponnese: Korinthia, Phleiasia, and the Argolid 136