The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the second Retracing Connections online research dialogue between speaker Fotini Kondyli (Virginia/Athens) and moderator Milan Vukasinovic (Uppsala), on the topic of

Layers of Urban History: From Modern to Byzantine Athens through the Athenian Agora Excavations Archives.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 18.00 (Athens).

Filippo Lepori (Uppsala University) will give a paper entitled

Why Does Zeus Care About Burnt Thighbones Only?
Burnt Animal Bones at Thysia Sacrifice Between the Homeric Poems and Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

Welcome to the Spring 2024 series of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.

All seminars will take place at 17h (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens and online via Zoom.

Riccardo di Cesare (Università degli Studi di Foggia) and Germano Sarcone (Scuola Normale Superiore) will give a paper entitled

The sanctuary of the Archaic acropolis at Hephaestia (Lemnos): new data on cult and ritual practices in their context.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

Susan Deacy, University of Roehampton, will give a paper entitled

‘I danced myself right out the womb’: Athena, dance and movement in ancient Greek religion.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the first Retracing Connections online research dialogue between Myrto Veikou (Patras) and Markéta Kulhánková (Prague), moderated by Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala), on the topic of

From narrative to lived spaces: Digenis Akrites in recent research.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 18.00 (Athens).

Tulsi Parikh, British School at Athens, will give a paper entitled

Rethinking the Ancient Greek Temenos. Boundary or Frame?

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, will give a paper entitled

Cult Continuity from the Minoan Period to the Persian Destruction of 494 BC.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, February 27, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.