Compare and contrast Pausanias' and Strabo's description of Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries. Read Goethe's Roman Elegies , no. 12 and compare his vision with the ancient sources. Walter Burkert's Ancient Mystery Cults presents a coherent picture of the importance of mystery cult for the ancients, how the various cults were organized, and the various associations between the different cults. The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis. Pers phone may be of some interest because the text by Andr Gide is from the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
Constellations View the constellation Virgo.
Retell the myth of Demeter and Persephone. Describe the similarities between the myth of Demeter and Persephone and the stories of Aphrodite and Adonis and Cybele and Attis.