Bonna D. Wescoat, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, will give a paper entitled

From City to Sanctuary on Samothrace.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, October 8, 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 Autumn 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.

Hans Beck, Münster University, will give a paper entitled

The Materiality of Oaths.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

Rebecca Van Hove, University of Groningen, will give a paper entitled

Divine and Human Authority in early Cretan law.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

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. 

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).

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.