Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.
The Filson produces two quarterly publications: Ohio Valley History and The Filson news magazine. A collaboration of the Filson Historical Society, Cincinnati Museum Center, and the University of Cincinnati, Ohio Valley History is a quarterly journal of the history and culture of the Ohio Valley and the Upper South.
The location of Persephone's abduction is different in each local cult. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter mentions the "plain of Nysa". [ 93 ] The locations of this probably mythical place may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended in the remote past.
The journal took the name The Historical Quarterly of the Filson Club in 1929, and The Filson Club History Quarterly the following year. It took the name Filson History Quarterly for its last two volumes (vol. 75 and 76) in 2001 and 2002. The journal was absorbed by Ohio Valley History, published by the Cincinnati Historical Society, in 2003.
Pickawillany (also spelled Pickawillamy, Pickawillani, or Picqualinni) was an 18th-century Miami Indian village located on the Great Miami River in North America's Ohio Valley near the modern city of Piqua, Ohio. [2]
"Loving, Ohio" releases Aug. 6 and can be found on Amazon, but will also be available in town at Prologue Books, 841 N. High St., and the Laughing Ogre, 4258 N. High St., as well as most bookstores.
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 37 (3): 299– 330. doi:10.2307/147599. ISSN 0018-098X. Bookidis, Nancy (1969). "The Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore on Acrocorinth, Preliminary Report III: 1968". Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 38 (3): 297– 310. doi:10. ...
The Thesmophoria (Ancient Greek: Θεσμοφόρια) was an ancient Greek religious festival, held in honor of the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone.It was held annually, mostly around the time that seeds were sown in late autumn – though in some places it was associated with the harvest instead – and celebrated human and agricultural fertility.