. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of T 3 418 ATTIC.\. Book IV. not known/ Eleusis, Lepsina, stood upon a height near the sea,opposite the island of Sahxmis ; the fertile Thriasian plain spread inlandfrom it, and tiie road from Athens to the istlnnus passed through owed its celebrity to the worship of Demeter, whose coming(^€\euaLs) appears to be implied in the name : the road which connectedthe place with Athens was named the Sacred Way, /from the solemnprocession which travelled along it annually at th
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. Coin of T 3 418 ATTIC.\. Book IV. not known/ Eleusis, Lepsina, stood upon a height near the sea,opposite the island of Sahxmis ; the fertile Thriasian plain spread inlandfrom it, and tiie road from Athens to the istlnnus passed through owed its celebrity to the worship of Demeter, whose coming(^€\euaLs) appears to be implied in the name : the road which connectedthe place with Athens was named the Sacred Way, /from the solemnprocession which travelled along it annually at the time of the Eleu-sinian festival. The temple of Demeter was buiiit by the Persians 484; its restoration was commenced by Pericles, who employedIjtinus as architect, but it was not completed until 318 ; it wasthe largest in Greece, and regarded as one of the four finest specimensof Grecian architecture in marble. The only noteworthy remains atEleusis are the fragments of the Propylsea, the platform of the temple,and traces of wharfs. The plain of Eleusis was exposed to periodicalinundations of the
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