12 May 2015, 15:00
Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Akropolis metro station)
Polyxeni Strolonga, ASCSA
“Shaping Religious Beliefs: The Case of the Major Homeric Hymns”
21 April 2015, 15:00
Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Akropolis metro station)
Elene Balomenou (University of Athens)
“Were Gods Meant to Entertain? Exploring Performativity, Theatricality and Entertainment in the Aegean Bronze Age Religion.’’
The Swedish Institute at Athens and Aegeus – Society for Aegean Prehistory invite you to the lecture:
The traditional paradigm of the Indo-European problem and the “Coming of the Greeks” (in Greek)
by Theodoros G. Giannopoulos (Open University of Cyprus)
Friday 17 April 2015, 19:00.
From 2010 onwards the Swedish Institute and the Archaeological Ephorate in Lamia have jointly been carrying out archaeological investigations in the western Spercheios Valley, in the modern municipality of Makrakomi, as part of the Makrakomi Archaeological Landscapes Project (MALP) under the general direction of the director of the Ephorate, Maria-Photeini Papakonstantinou…
Lecture Hall, Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15
The work of the Swedish Institute at Athens in 2014
Arto Penttinen, Director
Meandering liquids – libation rituals in Minoan open-air contexts
Monica Nilsson, Assistant Director
Kursen belyser samspelet mellan människa, miljö och klimat på Peloponnesos, Grekland. Historiska källor och arkeologiskt material kombineras med miljö- och klimatrekonstruktioner till ett tvärvetenskapligt angreppssätt som ger en ökad förståelse av kopplingen mellan miljöhistorisk och kulturhistorisk förändring från stenåldern till och med den romerska perioden (6800 f.Kr.– 300 e.Kr.)...
Lecture Hall, Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15
The Work of the Swedish Institute at Athens in 2013
Arto Penttinen, Director
Climate, environment and past societies. What do we want to know – and why?!
Karin Holmgren, Professor, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Director, Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO) and Erika Weiberg, Researcher, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University