 After some time, it drew crowds from thousands of people around Greece, and even leaders like Peisistratos, Pericles, Hadrian, and Antoninus Pius all came to erect monuments at Eleusis.In addition, the rites became so important to the Greeks that until Roman rule, the Sacred Way remained the only road in central Greece.Although the cult of Demeter kept information about its rites a secret only to those in the cult, the cult itself was open to a wide array of people.