title: Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries
author: George E. Mylonas
description: The real excavations in Eleusis start in 1882 by the Archaeological Society of Athens, supported by the Greek Government, since in 1877 they had started to disappropriate the village houses that they were all over the place. The first director was Dem. Philios, who was supported by a German architect, named Dorpfeld. Dem. Philios worked in Eleusis till 1894. Andreas Skias took over the leadership and he worked till 1907, when he became a professor in the University of Athens and it was impossible to continue in Eleusis. Excavations started again in 1917 under Kon.Kourouniotis responsibility, always with Archaeological Society of Athens. He cooperated with G.Mylonas, I.Travlos and I.Threpsiades. These three continued after Kourouniotis' death in 1945. G.Mylonas, until his death, in 1985 was involved in studies and researches about Eleusis.
zlib_text: Cosmopoulos, Michael B.. <i>Bronze Age Eleusis and the Origins of the Eleusinian Mysteries</i>, Cambridge University Press, 2015. ProQuest
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  BRONZE AGE ELEUSIS AND THE ORIGINS OF
  THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES
  For more than one thousand years, people from every corner of the Greco-
  Roman world sought the hope for a blessed afterlife through initiation into
  the Mysteries of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. In antiquity itself and in our
  memory of antiquity, the Eleusinian Mysteries stand out as the oldest and
  most venerable mystery cult.
  Despite the tremendous popularity of the Eleusinian Mysteries, their
  origins are unknown. Because they are lost in an era without written
  records, they can only be reconstructed with the help of archaeology. This
  book provides a much-needed synthesis of the archae