We are delighted to invite you to the official Athens launch of the Digital Periegesis (periegesis.org) on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 10 to 11 am, at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9. At the launch event, the Digital Periegesis team will present the interface, demonstrate its functions, and discuss its potential for research, education, and heritage engagement.

Please confirm your participation by email to info@periegesis.org 

The Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome welcome you to the next lecture in the series Bridges.

Cecilie Brøns, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen), will give a paper entitled

The Scent of Graeco-Roman Sculpture.

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 19h Athens time (18h Rome) 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 Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul welcome you to the 2025 Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Culture and Literature.

Dr. Emir Alışık, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), will give a paper entitled 

Once and Future Ruins
Constantinopolitan Afterlives in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Imagination.

The lecture takes place on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 18:00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Istiklal Caddesi 247, and on­line via Zoom. 

Silvia Negro, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, will give a paper entitled

The Cult of Apollo Zoster at Halai Aixonides in the 5th and 4th Centuries BC. 

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 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 has the pleasure of inviting you to the presentation of the book

The Sanctuary of Ayia Irini Reconsidered. A Quest for Gods and Territories,

that takes place on Friday, November 14, 2025, at 19.00, in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.

Jois us with Prof. Nota Kourou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Prof. Giorgos Vavouranakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Dr Anna Lekka, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, in dialogue with the author Dr Giorgos Bourogiannis.

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.