Preface List of Figures and Tables Contributors 1 Beyond Mysteries: Introduction to the Local Horizon of Ancient Eleusis Hans Beck and Sebastian Scharff Part 1: Settings and Surroundings 2 Eleusis in Its Economic and Environmental Setting Anton Bonnier 3 Along the Mystery Highway: Eleusis and Thebes in the Archaic Age Hans Beck 4 Between Argos and Athens: Eleusis as a Contested Space Jeremy McInerney Part 2: Saronic Dimensions 5 Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Eleusis in a Saronic Context: Political Geography and Ritual Practice Sarah C. Murray 6 Eleusis in the Gulf of Distorting Mirrors: Demeter's Look-Alikes and Her Saronic Reflections Irene Polinskaya 7 Between Locality and Diffusion: Εleusis in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the First-Fruits Decree Christy Constantakopoulou Part 3: Sites and Cults 8 Healing across the Gulf: Eleusis and the Asklepios Cult Roy van Wijk 9 Between Προσβατριος and Πατρς: Poseidon at and around Eleusis Shannon M. Dunn 10 The Eleusinian Deities in Ionia Julietta Steinhauer 11 Votive Reliefs from Eleusis in a Local, Regional, and Transregional Perspective Anja Klöckner Part 4: Civic Life 12 Listmaking, Accountability, and Gender in Eleusinian Myth and History Athena Kirk 13 Eleusis as a Place of Competition: the Eleusinian Games Sebastian Scharff 14 The Public Enactments of the Deme Eleusis: between Mysteries and Military Stephen Lambert Part 5: Stories and Myths 15 Centrality Reconsidered: Eleusis, Athens, and Mythotopography Angela Ganter 16 Eleusis and Athens at War: Myth, Conflict, and Identity Oliver Grote 17 Eleusis, Theseus and the Burial of the 'Seven against Thebes' Christoph Michels 18 The Profanation of the Mysteries in the Attic Orators: between Rhetorical Use and Historical Evidence Priscilla Gontijo Leite Part 6: Afterlives 19 Sacred Diplomacy: Eleusis as a Mediator between the Athenian Polis and the Roman Empire Margarita Sardak 20 Plutarch's Eleusis Chandra Giroux 21 Eleusis at the Intersection of Antiquity and Modernity: the mysteria, Altered Consciousness, and the Neuroscience of Transformational Experience Michelle Zerba.