Oliver Pilz, German Archaeological Institute at Athens, will give a paper entitled

A Cult Statue of Aphrodite from Gerasa (Jerash)

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) ONLY via Zoom due to unforeseen (good) circumstances.

Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, former director of the Swedish Institute at Athens, has passed away at an age of 93 years. Born 1929 in Helsingborg, Sweden, he studied at Lund University, where he received a PhD in 1967 on a thesis called Submycenaean Studies. He was the director of the institute from 1963 to 1970. From 1971 to 1989 he was the director of the Medelhavsmuseet in Stockholm. From 1986 to 2005 he was the secretary of the board of the institute. He was honoured by the Swedish Government with the title of professor in 1994.

Soi Agelidis, Ruhr University Bochum, will give a paper entitled

Where the Hell is Hades? Deity and Place in Ancient Greek Literature and Imagery.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, January 24, 2023, at 17.00 (Athens time) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. 

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Digital Periegesis Project (Uppsala University) welcome you to a workshop by Anna Foka, Elton Barker, Brady Kiesling, Kyriaki Konstantinidou and Linda Talatas, entitled

Gazetteering Pausanias: Athens and Beyond

The work­shop takes place as a hy­brid event on Thursday, January 26, 2023, 17.00–19.00 (Athens), phys­i­cally at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens and dig­i­tally on Zoom.

The Swedish Institute at Athens invites you to a lecture by Assoc.Prof. Elif Koparal (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), Project director of Urla-Çeşme Peninsula Archaeological Survey Project (KLASP) and Co-Director of Klazomenai Excavations (Urla-İzmir), entitled:

Ionian Khora: Fragility and Resilience of Rural Landscapes in Ionia

The lecture takes place on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, at 19.00 (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 invites you to a talk by Axel Frejman, Uppsala University & Swedish Institute at Athens, entitled

Ancient maps, wayfinding and spatial cognition. How would the Greeks have done it?

The lecture takes place on Wednesday, January 11, 2023, at 19.00 (Athens) at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9.