The Duration of Darkness and the Light of Eleusis in the Prologue of <i>Agamemnon</i> and the Third Stasimon of <i>Choephoroi</i>

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  • Marcel Widzisz

Abstract

In Aeschylus' trilogy the several recognizable allusions to the Eleusinian Mysteries, invoking the initiate's sudden passage from dark to light, serve to underscore ironically the larger theme of the corruption of ritual.

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