Kallichoron: Well of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece)

Kallichoron: Well of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece)

Sanctuary of Demeter (Eleusis, Greece)

Eleusinian mysteries

Ancient Greek religion

Homeric hymn to Demeter

Demeter (Greek deity)

Persephone (Greek deity)

Hades (Greek deity)

Classical Greece

This photograph depicts the Kallichoron, or, the Well Around Which to Dance. According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, this well, located in Eleusis, Greece, is the spot where Demeter stopped to rest and weep after the abduction of her daughter, Persephone, by the god of the underworld, Hades. During the Eleusinian Mysteries, one of the most important and popular mystery cults from the Greco-Roman world, initiates would dance around this well in honor of the goddesses, ultimately giving it its name.

Proctor, Christopher

03-June-2007

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Attikē (Greece)

1500 BCE – 396 CE