Episode 3: Demeter’s Grief and Loss

The Greek Myth Files - En podcast af Prof. R. Scott Smith

The loss of her daughter Persephone drove Demeter to wander the Greek countryside, leading her ultimately to Eleusis, where she nurses the king's son and tries to make him immortal (to replace her daughter). This goes awry, and Demeter makes the locals establish the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important cults in antiquity.

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