{"id":15,"date":"2010-07-23T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T20:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-04-05T12:04:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T19:04:28","slug":"the-mysteries-volume-two-the-dadouchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The Mysteries &#8211; Volume Two: The Dadouchos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Mysteries-Dadouchos-Ancient-Eleusis\/dp\/0981800734\/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16 \" title=\"TD_Cover_Web693h\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/TD_Cover_Web693h-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis - Volume Two: The Dadouchos\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/TD_Cover_Web693h-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/TD_Cover_Web693h.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis - Volume Two: The Dadouchos<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><em>The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis<\/em>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Volume Two: <\/span><em>The Dadouchos<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">by David Sheppard<br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mysteries-Dadouchos-Novel-Ancient-Eleusis\/dp\/0981800734\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1279920177&amp;sr=1-2\">Now available online<\/a>.) <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis<\/em> is a trilogy set in ancient Greece at the time of the Persian invasion. Historians constantly remind us that in 480 BC, when the great Persian Empire invaded Greece, King Xerxes planned to expand his dominion to the Atlantic Ocean, and if Greece hadn&#8217;t repulsed the invasion, Western Civilization, together with its democratic institutions, would not exist. Today we would be Oriental. Much has been written about the invasion, but little concerning heroic women. According to Herodotus, feminine influence in the form of the goddess Demeter was a deciding factor in the famous battles of Salamis, Plataea, and Mykale. Thus, the female spirit played an unheralded role in the salvation of democracy. <em>The Dadouchos<\/em> Volume Two of <em>The Mysteries<\/em>, concerns this feminine influence as personified by the priestess of Demeter and her daughter, but Kallias, the Torchbearer of the ancient Mysteries (Dadouchos) heavily influences much of the action as the Greeks attempt to eject Persia from their homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis. Volume Two: The Dadouchos by David Sheppard (Now available online.) The Mysteries, A Novel of Ancient Eleusis is a trilogy set in ancient Greece at the time of the Persian invasion. Historians constantly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/?p=15\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tragedysworkshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}