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Triptolemos Relief
Athens, National Museum 126. © E. Brundige 2005.
Illustration for my travel blog, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal.
You never know what you'll find when you're doing a few repairs! This massive marble relief was flipped upside down on the threshold of a Christian church at the ancient site of Eleusis, Greece, where the mysteries of the grain goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone were held for centuries. This image shows the two goddesses giving grain and teaching the arts of agriculture to the legendary boy Triptolemos.
For more information on Greek mythology, see my Greek mythology trivia quizzes, which cover most of the gods, goddesses, monsters and heroes of ancient Greece.
Triptolemos Relief
Athens, National Museum 126. © E. Brundige 2005.
Illustration for my travel blog, Ancient Greece Odyssey: A Traveller's Journal.
You never know what you'll find when you're doing a few repairs! This massive marble relief was flipped upside down on the threshold of a Christian church at the ancient site of Eleusis, Greece, where the mysteries of the grain goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone were held for centuries. This image shows the two goddesses giving grain and teaching the arts of agriculture to the legendary boy Triptolemos.
For more information on Greek mythology, see my Greek mythology trivia quizzes, which cover most of the gods, goddesses, monsters and heroes of ancient Greece.