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What Are the Eleusinian Mysteries?
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Athena, Demeter and Dionysus - The Worship of Ancient Gods Before Christianity
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- 1 Civic Cults and the World of Mystery Religions
- 2 How Athena Earned Her Epithet
- 3 How the Goddess Ge Was Conceived
- 4 Birth of the Panathenaic Festival
- 5 Contests in the Panathenaic Festival
- 6 The Procession and Animal Sacrifice
- 7 Demeter, Goddess of Grain
- 8 The Greatest Example of Exclusively Female Worship
- 9 What Are the Eleusinian Mysteries?
- 10 What is a Mystagogos?
- 11 What is the Highest Grade of Initiation?
- 12 The Worship of Dionysus
- 13 Depiction of Dionysus in The Bacchae by Euripides
- 14 What Are Maenads?
- 15 What Was the General Stance toward Polytheism?
- 16 Advantages of Joining a Non-State Cult
- 17 Why Did the State Sometimes Object to Cults?
- 18 Similarities/Differences between Mystery Religions and Christianity
