Eleusis Timeline

First recorded settlement at Eleusis.

First temple to Demeter & Persephone is built at Eleusis.

The Eleusinian Mysteries become part of the official Athenian religious calendar.

Eleusis is destroyed by the Persians.

Pericles oversees a significant rebuilding programme at Eleusis.

Eleusis is again expanded and new fortifications added.

Eleusis is destroyed by the Costobocs.

Marcus Aurelius oversees a rebuilding programme at Eleusis which includes a new propylaea.

Theodosius I orders the closure of all Greek pagan sites.

Eleusis is detroyed in the Visigoth invasion.