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Did I mention that the sacred Mysteries of Eleusis were kept strictly secret and an initiate could reveal nothing of the rites, on pain of exile... or even Death.

In Athens they voted with pottery shards when exiling someone... (see Ostracism).

The great playwright Aeschylus was born in Eleusis. Later in life he was put on trial for revealing the secrets of the Mysteries in his plays. One defense was that he had never been formally initiated. He was acquitted. whew. I mean... you shouldn't be executed for breaking an oath you never made, right?


even more research...
In search of the Divine: Philosophy and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Plato’s Symposium *This is a work in progress. Please do not cite or quote without the author’s permission.*