Greene's new book on the sublime will include a chapter on the Eleusinian Mysteries; he creates a fictional first-person account from a woman's perspective during the 1420s plague (historically inaccurate timing) going into the mysteries and experiencing them subjectively; he recently spoke with people knowledgeable about the mysteries and revised some inaccuracies, trying to combine historical accuracy with subjective emotional experience.
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“I create a character, a woman who's going to the mysteries and what it was like from her first person account. It's it's fictional, but I'm trying to actually, you know, give her a history during the the plague in the 1420s and then go into the mysteries and what it would feel like subjectively to be in there.”
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