Pigs in Ancient Greek sociey. From colloquial porkers to sacrificial swine.

The Swedish and Finnish Institutes at Athens invite you to the workshop 

Pigs in Ancient Greece. From Colloquial Porkers to sacrificial swine.

The workshop takes place on Friday, October 24, 2025, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

Various aspects of porcine animals will be discussed during the one day programme.

Programme

09.30
Petra Pakkanen and Jenny Wallensten
Welcome words

09.45
Gunnel Ekroth and Filippo Lepori (University of Uppsala)
Pigs as sacrifice: Problematic, polluted or simply pork?

10:30
Petra Pakkanen (Finnish Institute at Athens)
No skin off pig’s back. Pig-skin as a reason for the particularity of a pig in ancient Greek sources

Coffee Break

11:45
Quentin Zarka (Université Paris 1 Panthéon, Sorbonne)
The boar’s tusk helmets of Late Bronze Age Mycenae: Literature, iconography, and technological analysis in dialogue

Lunch Break

14:15
Samuel Gartland (University of Leeds)
Comic pigs in ancient Greece

15:00
Jenny Wallensten (Swedish Institute at Athens)
I’ll call you a pig if I want to: Notes on pig onomastics

15:45
Cristy Constantakopoulou (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Pigs on Delos: A cost analysis

Warmly welcome!

Attached files: Poster, Programme

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