In the following battle between the forces of Athens and Eleusis, Erechtheus won the battle and slew Eumolpus, but then himself fell, struck down by Poseidon's trident ; according to fragments of Euripides ' tragedy Erechtheus. Poseidon avenged his son Eumolpus ' death by driving him into the earth with blows of his trident,

Poseidon also had an affair with Alope, his granddaughter through Cercyon, his son and King of Eleusis, begetting the Attic hero Hippothoon.

The megaron of Eleusis, is quite similar with the " megaron " of Despoina at Lycosura.

His swine were swallowed by the earth along with her, and the myth is an etiology for the relation of pigs with the ancient rites in Thesmophoria, and in Eleusis.

In the hymn, Persephone returns and she is reunited with her mother near Eleusis.

Nilsson believes that the original cult of Ploutos ( or Pluto ) in Eleusis was similar with the Minoan cult of the " divine child ", who died in order to be reborn.

Elysion is probably counterpart with Eleusis, the city of the Eleusinian mysteries, and it may have been offered like a reward to the initiated.

The fest was named Eleuhinia, and the name was given before the relation of Demeter with the cult of Eleusis.

The monumental Protoattic amphora from the middle of the 7th century BC, with the depiction of Medusa's beheading by Perseus and the blinding of Polyphemos by Odysseus and his companions on its neck, is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis which is located inside the archaeological site of Eleusis.

Because she was in Thrace with Boreas, she did not die when her sisters either committed suicide or were sacrificed so that Athens could win a war against Eleusis.

In Greek mythology, Iacchus ( also Iacchos, Iakchos ) () is an epithet of Dionysus, particularly associated with the Mysteries at Eleusis, where he was considered to be the son of Zeus and Demeter.

Today Eleusis is a major industrial center, with the largest oil refinery in Greece.

Marble sarcophagus with a relief about the hunt of the Calydonian boar on its main face ( 2nd century AC ), in the Archaeological Museum of Eleusis.

During a war between Athens and Eleusis, Eumolpus sided with Eleusis.

In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis.

It was built entirely of marble from Mount Pentelikon, with friezes of black limestone from Eleusis which bore sculptures executed in relief in white marble.

To play Eleusis Express, each player is dealt 12 cards, and the dealer decides on a rule on how a card can correctly be played ( such as " alternate red then black cards " or " alternate cards with a closed loop ( e. g. 4, 6, 8, 9, Q, A ) and those without ").

Today a major overhaul of the GR-8A is under construction, with all its length being converted into modern motorway ; that is to form part of the A8, from Eleusis to Patras.

He was exiled sometime between 446 BC and 444 BC, charged by the Spartans with taking a bribe, probably from Pericles ( noted as " 10 talents necessary expenses " in Athens ' funds ), to withdraw from the plain of Eleusis in Attica after leading the Peloponnesian forces there following the revolts of Euboea and Megara from the Athenian empire.

In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries ( 1978 ), co-authored with Albert Hofmann and Carl A. P. Ruck, it was proposed that the special potion " kykeon ", a pivotal component of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot ( Claviceps spp.

In 1973, Abbott decided to improve Eleusis ; the result was considered to be far better than the original, with various improvements to the layouts and gameplay making it work quite a bit better.

He was said to have been born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 kilometers northwest of Athens, which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica, though the date is most likely based on counting back forty years from his first victory in the Great Dionysia.

Later accounts place the rape in Attica, near Athens, or near Eleusis.

* The Germans devastate the Balkans and ransack the sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens.

In Greece, traditional centres of worship in Delos, Delphi, Eleusis and Athens were taken over by followers of Isis, and this occurred in northern Greece as well.

They reached Eleusis, near Athens, and destroyed the temple of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

He leads the religious procession from Athens to Eleusis, thus atoning for his alleged impiety in 415 BC when he was held to have joined in profaning the Sacred Mysteries.

After this victory, the remainder of the Thirty fled to Eleusis, and the oligarchs within Athens began squabbling amongst themselves.

Their object was the temenos at Skiron of the hero-seer Skiros, who had aided Eumolpus in the war between Athens and Eleusis in which Erechtheus II, the hero-king, was both triumphant and died.

His reign was marked by the war between Athens and Eleusis, when the Eleusinians were commanded by Eumolpus, coming from Thrace.

He founded the two families of high priests in Eleusis: the Kerykes ( or Kerukes, a family of priests in Athens ) and the Eumolpidae.

The name Iacchos was also given to one of the days of the Mysteries: the 20th of Boedromion, upon which day Iacchus was taken from his sanctuary in Athens and escorted in solemn procession to Eleusis.

The festival of Eleusinia was celebrated each year in Eleusis and Athens for nine days from the 15th to the 23rd of the month of Boedromion ( in September or October of the Gregorian calendar ); because the festival calendar had 12 lunar months, the celebrations were not strictly calibrated to a year of 365 days.

Athens ' nearest military airport is a few kilometers east of Eleusis.

In the Eleusinian Mysteries, the bakchoi were the branches that initiates carried during their procession along the Sacred Way, the twenty-one kilometer hike from Athens to Eleusis.

During the war between Eleusis and Athens, Himmarados led the Thracian armies on the side of Eleusis.

The main places where prehistoric remains were found are Marathon, Rafina, Nea Makri, Brauron, Thorikos, Agios Kosmas, Eleusis, Menidi, Markopoulo, Sparta, Aphidnae and Athens.

As a result of these reforms, Attica was divided into approximately a hundred municipalities, the demes ( dēmoi, δῆμοι ), and also into three large sectors: the city ( ἄστυ ), which comprised the areas of central Athens, Ymittos, Aegaleo and the foot of Mount Parnes, the coast ( παράλια ), that included the area between Eleusis and Cape Sounion and the area around the city ( ἐσωτερικό-μεσογαία ), inhabited by people living on the north of Mount Parnitha, Penteliko and the area east of the mountain of Hymettus.

To protect the mines at Laurium, on the coast, Athens was fortified by the walls at Rhamnus, Thoricus, Sounion, Anavyssos, Piraeus, and Eleusis.

* The last bandit was Procrustes the Stretcher, who had two beds, one of which he offered to passers-by in the plain of Eleusis.

In an attempt to solve the mystery of how so many people over the span of two millennia could have consistently experienced revelatory states during the culminating ceremony of the Eleusinian Mysteries, it has been posited that the barley used in the Eleusinian kykeon was parasitized by ergot, and that the psychoactive properties of that fungus triggered the intense experiences alluded to by the participants at Eleusis.

His children are listed variously as two sons: Eleusinus ( for whom the city Eleusis was named ) and Cadmus ( noted above as his father in other traditions ); and three daughters: Aulis, Alalcomenia, and Thelvinia.

The two peaks of Mount Aigaleo lie to the north and west of the suburb, and is located ESE of Eleusis, S of the Attiki Odos ( Exit number 6 ), W of Kifissou Avenue ( GR-1 / E75, and Athens, NW of Poseidonos Avenue and N of Piraeus.