We were nearly the sole visitors to the archaeological remains of Eleusis, where the Eleusinian Mysteries were celebrated in a temple to which access was restricted and which seated over 3,000.   All the remains and fragments of the several temples are rather arbitrarily arranged, piled up indiscriminately as if awaiting rearrangement one day – the remains of columns, inscriptions, a marble foot – all excavated some time ago and left evocatively in amongst the wild flowers:-

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