Corinth Publication Bookidis & Stroud, Demeter and Persephone in Ancient ... 1987

Collection:		Corinth
Name:		Bookidis & Stroud, Demeter and Persephone in Ancient ... 1987
Title:		Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth
Author:		Bookidis, Nancy & Stroud, Ronald S.
Publication Place:		Princeton, -N.J.-
Publisher:		American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Date:		1987
Abstract:		When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.
Area:		Acrocorinth Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore
ISBN:		0876616716 9780876616710
URL:		http://www.worldcat.org/title/demeter-and-persephone-in-ancient-corinth/oclc/479838509&referer=brief_results
References:		Image: digital 2014 11154