Demeter and Persephone in Ancient Corinth

by Nancy Bookidis, Ronald S. Stroud

Overview

When the Roman tourist Pausanias visited Corinth around A.D. 160, he saw many shrines and buildings high up to the south of the city, on the slopes of Acrocorinth. This booklet describes excavations at one of these, the Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone (Kore). The details of religious rites revealed are of particular interest since the cult of the two goddesses, also celebrated at Eleusis, is one of the most mysterious in antiquity, and no literary testimony exists to explain what may have happened behind the high walls. Terracotta dolls, ritual meals of pork, and miniature models of food-filled platters hint at a vigorous religious tradition associated with human and agricultural fertility.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876616710
Publisher:	American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Publication date:	11/21/1987
Series:	Corinth Notes , #2
Edition description:	Volume II ed.
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,056,621
Product dimensions:	5.47(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	17 Years

About the Author

Ronald S. Stroud is the Klio Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.