Eleusinia

A surname of Demeter and Persephone, derived from Eleusis in Attica, the principal seat of their worship.

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References

Sources

  • Phornutus. On the Nature of the Gods, 27.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἐλευσίς.
  • Virgil. Georgics i, 163.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.