Welcome to the Autumn 2024 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 is sad to announce that our long-term collaborator Erik Hallager passed away on August 18, 2024. Erik Hallager was an expert on Minoan archaeology and scripts. He took over as field director for the Swedish part of the Greek-Swedish excavations in Khania in 1973, and continued working within the project until this year, also in his capacity of Director of the Danish Institute at Athens and professor of Classical archaeology at Aarhus University 2004-2007. 

Det Nordiska Biblioteket i Athen är ett fackbibliotek för arkeologi och antikens kultur. Biblioteket drivs av de fyra nordiska instituten i Athen och i dess samlingar ingår litteratur framförallt inom ämnen klassisk arkeologi, historia och filologi. Samlingarna består av över 40 000 verk. Biblioteket ligger i området Makrygianni, centralt i Athen, i närheten av de nordiska instituten. Biblioteket administreras av en styrelse bestående av institutens direktörer. Biblioteket drivs av två anställda, varav en är bibliotekarie och den andre informationsspecialist. Biblioteket används först och främst av forskare och studerande från Norden, Grekland och andra länder. Det finns 33 studieplatser på biblioteket.

Det Nordiska Biblioteket i Athen söker nu en senior bibliotekarie/akademisk bibliotekarie på heltid. Villkor enligt grekiska lagar och regler för arbetslivet.

Rebecca Van Hove, University of Groningen, will give a paper entitled

Divine and Human Authority in early Cretan law.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, June 11, 2024, 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 welcomes you to Athens Jazz & Preveza Jazz Festival with Nils Landgren and his band Funk Unit.

• 23^rd Athens Jazz on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, at 11 p.m.
• 22^nd Preveza Jazz Festival on Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 11 p.m.

We are pleased to invite interested colleagues to an evening seminar discussing joyful learning about cultural heritage with focus on sustainability.

Warmly welcome on Monday the 20^th or Wednesday the 22^nd of May at 6 p.m.! (The same seminar will be given twice.)

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

Happy Easter

Glad Påsk

Καλό Πάσχα

Filippo Lepori, Uppsala University, will give a paper entitled

Why Does Zeus Care About Burnt Thighbones Only?
Burnt Animal Bones at Thysia Sacrifice Between the Homeric Poems and Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.