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62 ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES AND RITES plain to see which should first complete his allotted task. The ancient sanctuary in which the Mysteries were celebrated was burnt by the Persians in 480 or 479 B.C., and a new sanctuary was built—or, at least, begun—under the administration of Pericles. Plutarch says that Coroebus began the Temple of Initiation at Eleusis, but only lived to finish the lower rank of columns with their architraves ; Metagenes, of the ward of Xypete, added the rest of the entabla- ture and the upper row of columns, and that Xenocles of Cholargus built the dome on the top. The long wall, the building of which Socrates says he heard Pericles propose to the people, was undertaken by Callicrates. Cratinus satirized the work as proceeding very slowly : — Stone upon stone the orator has pil'd With swelling words, but words will build no walls. According to some writers the Temple was planned by Tetinus, the architect of the Parthenon, and Pericles was merely the overseer of the building. We are told by Vitruvius that the Temple at Eleusis consisted at first of one cell of vast magnitude, without columns, though it was probable that it was meant to be surrounded in the customary manner ; a prostyle, however, only was added, and that not until the time of Demetrius Phalereus, some ages after the original structure was erected. It is
PROGRAMME OF GREATER MYSTERIES probable that the uncommon magnitude of the cell, added to the various and complicated rites of initiation to the Eleusinian Mysteries, of which it was the scene, prevented its being a peristyle, the expense of which would have been enormous. The Temple was one of the largest of the sacred edifices of Greece. Its length was 68 metres, its breadth 54*66 metres and its superficial area 3716-88 square metres. The monumental altar of sacrifice was placed in front of the fagade, close by the eastern angle of the enclosure. According to Virgil the words " Far hence, O be ye far hence, ye profane ones," were inscribed over the main portal. In the fourth century of the Christian era the Temple of Eleusis was destroyed by the Goths, at the instigation of the monks, who followed the hosts of Alaric. The revenues from the celebrations must have been considerable. At both the Lesser Mysteries and the Greater Mysteries a charge of one obole a day was demanded from each one attending, which was given to the hierophant. The hieroccerj^x received a half-obole a day, and other assistants a similar sum. In current coinage an obole was of the value of a fraction over ijd.
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Page 17 and 18: INTRODUCTION BY The Rev. J. FORT NE
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