Visual Timeline: Eleusis

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1900 BCE: First recorded settlement at Eleusis.
 
 
1500 BCE: First temple to Demeter & Persephone is built at Eleusis.
 
600 BCE: The Eleusinian Mysteries become part of the official Athenian religious calendar.
 
479 BCE: Eleusis is destroyed by the Persians.
 
450 BCE: Pericles oversees a significant rebuilding programme at Eleusis.
 
360 BCE: Eleusis is again expanded and new fortifications added.
 
170 CE: Eleusis is destroyed by the Costobocs.
 
170 CE - 180 CE: Marcus Aurelius oversees a rebuilding programme at Eleusis which includes a new propylaea.
 
379 CE: Theodosius I orders the closure of all Greek pagan sites.
 
395 CE: Eleusis is detroyed in the Visigoth invasion.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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