City Eleusinion at Athens
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Denitsa Dzhigova Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 02, 2025 02:04 PM
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History
tags:
Thesmophoria,
Demeter
The City Eleusinion was one of the most important sanctuaries in the religious life of ancient Athens. It was the urban “branch” of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis in use during the Archaic and Classical periods.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/650003009
37.9733112426, 23.7249215472
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the City Eleusinion (550 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- City Eleusinion (English, modern)
- Ελευσίνιο (Eleusinion: Modern Greek, 550 BC - 30 BC)
- Ἐλευσίνιον (Eleusinion: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ἐλευσίνιον ἐν ἄστει (Eleusínion en astei: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- City Eleusinion at Athens located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
- City Eleusinion at Athens related Demeter Sanctuary (Eleusis) (unspecified date range)
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sanctuary (religious center), architectural complex
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- AIO Findspot: City Eleusinion
- AIO Original Location: City Eleusinion
- Agora Monument: Eleusinion
- Clinton 1974
- Clinton 1980
- Cole 1994
- Judith Binder's Opus Magnum Eleusinion: Akropolis northwest slope on the Panathenaic Way
- Miles 1998
- Miles 2015
- Palinkas 2008
- The Ancient City of Athens (Stoa.org): Eleusinion in the City (City Eleusinion)
- ToposText Eleusinion (Athens) 20 Athens
- Wikipedia (English) Eleusinion
- Related:
Pleiades
Denitsa Dzhigova, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, and Tom Elliott, 'City Eleusinion at Athens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/650003009> [accessed: 06 February 2026]
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