Editing Eleusinian Mysteries (section)

==In art, literature, and culture==
[[File:Hydrie - Mystères d'Eleusis (face A).jpg|thumb|upright|The [[Eleusinian Mysteries Hydria]], showing the reunion of [[Demeter]] and [[Persephone]] at the start of each spring]]
There are many paintings and pieces of pottery that depict various aspects of the Mysteries. The ''Eleusinian Relief'', from the late 5th century BC, displayed in the [[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]] is a representative example. Triptolemus is depicted receiving seeds from Demeter and teaching mankind how to work the fields to grow crops, with Persephone holding her hand over his head to protect him.<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline of Art History: Italian Peninsula, 1000 BC – 1 AD |work=[[The Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/god2/ho_14.130.9.htm |access-date=July 26, 2007 }}</ref> Vases and other works of relief sculpture, from the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries BC, depict Triptolemus holding an ear of corn, sitting on a winged throne or chariot, surrounded by Persephone and Demeter with pine torches. The monumental Protoattic amphora from the middle of the 7th century BC, with the depiction of Medusa's beheading by [[Perseus]] and the blinding of Polyphemos by [[Odysseus]] and his companions on its neck, is kept in the [[Archaeological Museum of Eleusis]] which is located inside the archaeological site of [[Eleusis]].

The [[Ninnion Tablet]], found in the same museum, depicts Demeter, followed by Persephone and Iacchus, and then the procession of initiates. Then, Demeter is sitting on the kiste inside the Telesterion, with Persephone holding a torch and introducing the initiates. The initiates each hold a bacchoi. The second row of initiates were led by [[Iakchos]], a priest who held torches for the ceremonies. He is standing near the [[omphalos]] while an unknown female (probably a priestess of Demeter) sat nearby on the kiste, holding a scepter and a vessel filled with kykeon. Pannychis is also represented.

''[[The Myth of Er]]'', part of [[Plato]]'s ''[[Plato's Republic|Republic]]'', is thought to be a representation of the teaching of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Er, after being killed in battle and brought to the underworld, is reincarnated without drinking from the [[Lethe|River Lethe]]. He retains his memories and tells the living about his experience in the underworld. He no longer has a fear of death.<ref name=":1" />

In ''Shakespeare's Mystery Play: A Study of The Tempest'', Colin Still argued that ''[[The Tempest]]'' was an allegory for initiation into the Eleusinian Mysteries.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Tamplin|first=Ronald|year=1967|title=The Tempest and The Waste Land|journal=American Literature|volume=39|issue=3|pages=352–372 |doi=10.2307/2923299 |jstor=2923299 }}</ref>  Though widely rejected, this interpretation was supported by Michael Srigley in ''Images of Regeneration''.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ormsby-Lennon|first=Hugh|title=Review: ''Images of Regeneration''|journal=Modern Philology|year=1988|volume=85|issue=3}}</ref>

[[Carl Gustav Jung]] (1875–1961) borrowed terms and interpretations from the late 19th and early 20th century classical scholarship in German and French as a source of metaphors for his reframing of psychoanalytic treatment into a spiritualistic ritual of initiation and rebirth. The Eleusinian mysteries, particularly the qualities of the Kore, figured prominently in his writings.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/6698999|title=Mysteria: Jung and the Ancient Mysteries (1994) [uncorrected page proofs of a book cancelled prior to publication due to objections by the Jung family]|author=Richard Noll|journal=Academia.edu}}</ref>

[[Dimitris Lyacos]] in the second book of the ''Poena Damni'' trilogy ''[[With the People from the Bridge]]'', a contemporary, avant-garde play focusing on the return of the dead and the [[revenant]] legend combines elements from the Eleusinian mysteries as well as early Christian tradition in order to convey a view of [[collective salvation]]. The text uses the pomegranate symbol in order to hint at the residence of the dead in the underworld and their periodical return to the world of the living.<ref>Julie Kovacs, The nightmare continues in With the People from the Bridge. Exercise Bowler, Issue 21, 2015. http://exercisebowler.com/issue21.htm</ref>

[[Octavio Vazquez]]'s [[symphonic poem]] ''Eleusis'' draws on the Eleusinian Mysteries and on other Western esoteric traditions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lineasadicionales.blogspot.com/2017/10/eleusis-musica-y-misterios-tu-alcance.html|title=Eleusis: música y misterios a tu alcance|author=Julian Carrillo Sanz|year=2017}}</ref> Commissioned by the [[Sociedad General de Autores y Editores]] and the [[RTVE Symphony Orchestra]], it was premiered in 2015 by the RTVE Orchestra and conductor [[Adrian Leaper]] at the [[Teatro Monumental]] in Madrid.