A great hall in Eleusis, Telesterion (`Initiation Hall` from Gr. τελείω, to complete, to fulfill, to consecrate, to initiate) was one of the primary centers of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Devoted to Demeter and Persephone, these initiation ceremonies were the most sacred and ancient of all the religious rites celebrated in Greece. At some po.....
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(from the article `Ictinus`) ...some speculation that they were not collaborators but actually rivals—that Ictinus continued the work begun by Callicrates. Ictinus was also ... ...a 2nd-century- copy of the central building of the Propylaea on the Acropolis of Athens. It also traced its extensions at various periods and ... [2 r...
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