Jorrit Kelder, Leiden University, will give a paper entitled

Facing the Gods.
Mycenaean statues and their possible role in rituals.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom. 

Warmly welcome to a presentation of the volume Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography by Prof. Vassilios Vertoudakis & Dr Marianna Thoma, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in dialogue with the author Dr Antonios Pontoropoulos (Affiliated researcher, Swedish Institute in Rome/Uppsala University).

The event will take place on Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 19h (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 and the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens cordially invite you to a jointly organised lecture within the framework of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar

The Discovery of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Samikon

by Birgitta Eder – Erofili-Iris Kolia – Sophia Zoumbaki.

The lecture takes place on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Leoforos Alexandras 26, and on­line via Zoom. 

Welcome to the Spring 2026 series of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.

All seminars will take place at 17h (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens and online via Zoom.

The Swedish Institute at Athens and Aegeus - Society for Aegean Prehistory are pleased to present the Aegean Lectures for the first semester of 2026. All lectures will take place at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis metro station) at 19:00.

The Director and the staff of the Swedish Institute at Athens wish you a...

Happy Easter

Glad Påsk

Καλό Πάσχα

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens in­vites you to a lecture by Dr Christopher Nuttall, Swedish Institute at Athens, entitled

Beyond the Major Islands. The Little Islandscapes of the Saronic Project 2024-2025.

The lec­ture takes place on Thursday, April 16, 2026, at 19.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

Elisavet Sioumpara, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, will give a paper entitled

Where was the cult of the Roman Emperor in Athens? New evidence for the Athenian Sebasteion on the Acropolis.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom.