The Swedish Institute at Athens invites you to attend The Biannual Martin P. Nilsson Lecture on Ancient Greek Religion

To Take Place: Divine Appropriations of Space, Beyond the Notion of «Religious Landscape»

by Prof. Corinne Bonnet (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) on Friday, November 7, 2025, at 7 p.m. (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9.

The event is fully booked – registration is now closed.

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.

Stelios Ieremias, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, will give a paper entitled

Terracotta votives from Hellenistic Demetrias. What can we learn about votive practices in a cosmopolitan Hellenistic harbour in ancient Thessaly?

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom.