Baubo

Fry in Eleusis, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1889).

19 October, 2018 - 16:30 MartiniF

Baubo, Great Goddess and Demeter’s Female Fool in the Eleusinian Mysteries

In 1898, a group of German archaeologists working in the Demeter sanctuary at Priene unearthed a peculiar set of Hellenistic female figurines. The head of each of these figurines sits directly on her...