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. 

Welcome to Athens Baroque Festival!

On Friday, September 26 & Sunday, September 28, 2025, the Swedish baroque violinist Rebecka Karlsson will perform in Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas at the German Evangelical Church (Sina 68, Athens).

This will indead be a wonderful chance to experience baroque music at its finest!

The Greek Movie Days is a yearly event organized by the Swedish institute at Athens, the Greek House of Culture, the Greek School in Stockholm and the Women’s section of the Greek association in Stockholm.

The event is organized with the object of highlighting new and exciting Greek films and are being arranged this year for the sixth consecutive time.

Welcome to Zita Folkets Bio in Stockholm on the 5th, 12th and 19th Oktober, 2025, at 5 p.m.

Celebrate this year’s European Day of Languages with us at the Pedion tou Areos in Athens!

Saturday 27 September 2025, 10.00 - 14.00 Pedion tou Areos, Αrion area.

The course aims to deepen advanced students’ understanding of ancient Greece, ranging from Prehistory to historical periods. Through excursions, lectures, and library study, this is a great opportunity for students to acquire a contextualized in situ knowledge of archaeological material, excavation sites, monuments, and museum collections in Greece.

Application deadline: 15 October 2025

The Swedish Institute at Athens, the Greek-Swedish Association, and the Nordic Academy invite you to the commemorative event honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis – Sweden, a second homeland

Thursday, October 2, 2025, at 7:00 p.m. at the Danish Institute (14 Chairefontos Street, Plaka).