Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome

01/12/2023

Season's greetings, everyone! Our Christmas Offer is now available at https://ecsi.se/christmas-offer-2023/
50-80% discount on selected conference proceedings.

Christmas offer 2023 50–80% discount on our conference proceedings! Download order form, mark your titles by checking the boxes beneath the cover images, fill in your contact information and send t…

21/11/2023

Patrik Klingborg's book featured in Antiquity Journal:s New Book Chronicle: "This well-put-together volume delivers a much-needed emphasis on the installations of the important and commonly used wells and cisterns in order to gain a deeper understanding of the system of water supplies." See https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.138

The book is published with open access at https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-8-23

How did the ancient Greeks gain access to freshwater?

Check out our review of 'Going against the flow: wells, cisterns and water in ancient Greece' by Patrik Klingborg in our latest New Book Chronicle with the theme 'Waterscapes and water supply'.

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07/11/2023

Proudly presenting Opuscula 16, available with immediate at https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-16. Print edition distributed by eddy.se AB. Published by Swedish Institute at Athens and Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma.

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02/11/2023

/ : Having difficulty remembering the full contents of Opuscula Romana 15, published in 1985? No worries, have a look at https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-42/!
Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma in the series .

Opuscula Romana 15 Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Contents Patrikk Bruun, ‘From polis to metropolis. Notes on Thessalonica in the a…

27/10/2023

continues! Why not take the opportunity to read ´Bones, behaviour and belief' from cover to cover? See https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-55/ Edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Jenny Wallensten. Published by Swedish Institute at Athens. Print edition distributed by eddy.se AB.

Now available for purchase and free download at Bokorder.se. Also available at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Bokus.com and Adlibris.com. Bones, behaviour and belief. The zooarchaeological evidence as a so…

26/10/2023

Next in our celebration of is 'San Giovenale 5:1, The Borgo'. Available with open access at https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-26/
Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. Print edition distributed by eddy.se AB.

San Giovenale. Results of excavations conducted by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies at Rome and the Soprintendenza alle Antichità dell’Etruria Meridionale Published by the Swedish Institu…

25/10/2023

International Open Access Week continues! Did you know that 'Mastos in the Berbati Valley. An intensive archaeological survey' is available for download at https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-54/? The book was edited by Michael Lindblom and Berit Wells. Enjoy!
Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Print edition distributed by eddy.se AB.

Open access, use links below. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Bokus.com, and Adlibris.com. Mastos in the Berbati Valley. An intensive archaeologi…

24/10/2023

Let's celebrate international Open Access Week! We will highlight one open access publication each day this week. Second in line is Christer Henriksén's 'The Greek and Latin inscriptions in the Collections of Uppsala University'. Download the complete book at https://ecsi.se/actarom-8-23/
Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma, print edition distributed by eddy.se AB.

Open access. Printed edition distributed by Eddy.se AB. Also available at Amazon.com, Amazon.de and Adlibris. Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum et Latinarum Upsaliensis. The Greek and Latin inscripti…

23/10/2023

Let's celebrate international Open Access Week! We will highlight one open access publication each day this week, starting with Anne Ingvarsson-Sundström's 'Children lost and found. A bioarchaeological study of Middle Helladic children in Asine with a comparison to Lerna'. Download the complete book at https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-45/
Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens, print edition distributed by eddy.se AB.

Asine 3. Supplementary studies in the Swedish excavations 1922–1930 Fasc. 1. Supplementary studies in the Swedish excavations 1922–1930 Edited by Robin Hägg, Gullög C. Nordquist & Berit Wells P…

12/10/2023

/ : 1967 saw the publication of Carl Eric Östenberg's Luni sul Mignone e problemi della preistoria d’Italia. D.H. Trump wrote in the Journal of Roman Studies:

"Luni has shown itself to be a site of considerable importance in the Italian Bronze Age, and this report gives an admirable picture of the site, the finds and the conclusions to be drawn from them."
https://doi.org/10.2307/299880

See https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-25/ regarding the publication and https://isvroma.org/en/2021/11/03/luni-sul-mignone/ regarding the excavations at

Luni sul Mignone e problemi della preistoria d’Italia By Carl Eric Östenberg Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions Summary (excerpt) The Sw…

28/09/2023

Today the Gothenburg Book Fair is launched! Have a look at some of our recent titles at B05:70, where you will also find books published by Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien and Nationalmuseum, all distributed by eddy.se AB.

We celebrate the event with a backlist sale: 80% off on all our books published 2008-2020! Download the order form at

To celebrate the Book Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden, we launch a backlist sale: 80% off on all books published 2008-2020! Place your order using the orderform available below: If you are at the Book F…

21/09/2023

/ : Twenty years have passed since the publication of 'Swedish excavations at Sinda, Cyprus. Excavations conducted by Arne Furumark 1947–1948'. See https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-50/

Jennifer M. Webb wrote in the American Journal of Archaeology:
.. Adelman’s main objective was to retrieve and present the basic stratigraphic, architectural, and artifactual data, and he has done this in full and painstaking detail. In making the primary data available to other scholars, he has acquitted the primary obligation of the original excavator and ably fulfilled the demands and responsibilities of a collaborative task for which few of us would have had either the courage or patience.

https://doi.org/10.3764/ajaonline1101.webb

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens in the series . Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

Furumark’s excavations at the Late Bronze Age fortified town of Sinda, some 20 miles east of Nicosia, were conducted more than 50 years ago. Despite lack of publication and the relatively small area uncovered, the site has since played an important role in discussions of the 12th century B.C. in C...

20/09/2023

🎉Wonderful news: the Swedish Research Council will continue co-funding Opuscula 2024-2026! Let's look forward to another three volumes presenting high-quality research!

Want to submit an article? Our deadline is 1 November. Check out our webpage for further details: https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom

The Opuscula is published by the Swedish Institute at Athens and Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma and distributed by eddy.se AB.

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (OpAthRom) Opuscula (ISSN: 2000-0898) is published yearly, in November, by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. First issued in 2…

07/09/2023

/ : Opuscula Romana 16 was published in 1987. It contains Jocelyn Penny Small's article 'Left, right, and center: direction in Etruscan art' - and much more. See https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-44/. Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Romana 16 Contents Giovanni Colonna, ‘Il maestro dell’Ercole e delle Minerva. Nuova luce su…

30/08/2023

– Special offer!

We hope that you enjoy the 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August – 2 September 2023. Here is a special offer to celebrate the event!

EAA 2023 – Special offer! We hope that you enjoy the 29th European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Annual Meeting in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 30 August – 2 September 2023. Here is…

22/06/2023

/ : Volume 16 of the Opuscula Atheniensia ( ) was published in 1986. It contains nine articles. Erik Østby's account on 'The archaic temple of Athena Alea at Tegea' is one of them. For a full list of contents, see https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-34/
Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens in the series . Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia 16 Ed. Brita Alroth Contents Paul Åström, ‘Hala Sultan Tekke—An international harbour town of the …

08/06/2023

/ : The first volume of Einar Gjerstad's massive "Early Rome" was published 70 years ago, the sixth and last volume 50 years ago. The books were discussed in a great number of reviews, some of them now listed at https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-17/

John Ward-Perkins wrote in Antiquity 52:205, 1978:

"It is to Gjerstad that we owe, and will long continue to owe, a definitive corpus of the archaeological evidence, some of it previously unpublished, much of it indifferently published, and all of it now much more accessible than it was before. As Ridgway remarks, ‘this is the best corpus that we have, or were ever likely to have’. Moreover, however coloured Gjerstad‘s own interpretations of that material may prove to be, he does also supply the information by which those interpretations may be reviewed and tested."
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00072069

Published in the series by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. Volumes 1-3 out of print. Volumes 4-6 distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

Einar Gjerstad: Early Rome, V: the written sources; Early Rome, VI: historical survey. (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Rom, XVII, 5 and 6). Lund; Berlingska Boktryckeriet, 1973. 414 pp., 10 figs. and 216 pp., 52 figs. Swk 100 each volume. - Volume 52 Issue 205

25/05/2023

/ : Don't miss tomorrow's conference on Khania at Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm! See https://www.medelhavsmuseet.se/kalendarium/program/pa-engelskain-english-signs-of-the-times--the-archaeology-of-late-bronze-age-kydoniakhania/ For our weekly Throwback, let's have a look at the five volumes documenting the Greek-Swedish excavations at Khania which have so far been published: https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-47/
Published by Swedish Institute at Athens in the series .
See also Medelhavsmuseet

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11/05/2023

/ : Jeannette Forsén's Agios Elias of Asea, Arcadia, vol. 1, was published two years ago. For more information, see https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-58-1 or have a look at the review by Anna Magdalena Blomley in the Journal of Hellenic Studies:

"For the study of sacred mountaintop spaces, the remains at Agios Elias thus not only represent a valuable addition to the corpus of available evidence, but also a powerful reminder that challenges in accessibility do not make a mountaintop sanctuary an ‘isolated’ site." https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075426922000830

(J.) FORSÉN (ed.) Agios Elias of Asea, Arcadia: From Early Sanctuary to Medieval Village (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen, 4o, 58:1). Stockholm: The Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome, 2021. Pp. 179, illus. 446 kr. 9789179160661. - Volume 142

04/05/2023

/ : Opuscula 15 was published six months ago. That means that as of now all content is available with at https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15!

Read more about:
The Swedish Cyprus Expedition 2020 and 2021 - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-02
The Palamas Archaeological Project - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-03
Late Etruscan tripod thymiateria - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-04
The Basilica Sempronia and the Forum Romanum - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-05
Memorial sculpture in the Protestant Cemetery at Rome - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-06
Human-environment dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean - https://doi.org/10.30549/opathrom-15-07
+ book reviews and dissertation abstracts!

Opuscula is published by Swedish Institute at Athens and Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. Distributed by eddy.se AB.

27/04/2023

/ : Opuscula Romana 17 was published in 1989. The journal contains the article ‘Felicior Augusto—portrait medallions in glass and the Ravenna relief’ by Gloria Ferrari. And much more. Check out the full contents at https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-46/

was published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma in the series . Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Romana 17 Contents Johnny Bengtsson, ‘Survey in Italy, “La Farnesina project”’, pp. 7–8 Mats Cullhed, ‘Maxentius as princeps’, pp. 9…

20/04/2023

/ : 1988 saw the publication of Opuscula Atheniensia 17. The journal contains an article by Arne Furumark on ‘Linear A and Minoan religion’. And much, much more. Have a look at https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-37/

Published by Swedish Institute at Athens in the series and the journal . Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia 17 Contents Paul Åström, Katie Demakopoulou & Gisela Walberg, ‘Excavations in Midea 1985’, pp.…

13/04/2023

/ : Helge Lyngby's 'Beiträge zur Topographie des Forum-Boarium-Gebietes in Rom' was published in 1954. See https://ecsi.se/actarom-8-7/ The book was reviewed in several journals. Lionel Casson wrote in Latomus:

"Lyngby has not solved all the problems and a number of his solutions are, in the nature of the case, admittedly conjectural. But, in this model of exact research, he has summed up all there is to say on the matters involved: the problems he has dealt with need no further treatment until such time as the archaeologist's spade happily turns up some new, decisive evidence."
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41518086

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Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Beiträge zur Topographie des Forum-Boarium-Gebietes in Rom. Testemonien nebst Kommentar und kritisch…

06/04/2023

/ : As you all know, excellent research never gets old. And we do our very best to keep our Classics (!) up-to-date and accessible. The conference volume 'Bones, behaviour and belief' was published ten years ago. Now DOI:s have registered for all content, making this our second volume registered at doi.org, see https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-4-55

First to be registered was our brand new conference volume 'Going against the flow', see https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-8-23 Both are volumes published by the Swedish Institute at Athens

I will leave you to enjoy these two openly available Easter eggs now.

Happy Easter!

31/03/2023

Here's a final hurrah for this year's Spring Offer! See

Spring sale 2023 50-80% discount on selected titles. Please use the order form below. Titles Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum et Latinarum Upsaliensis. The Greek and Latin inscriptions in the Collec…

30/03/2023

/ : Published in 1991, the conference volume Arte militare e architettura nuragica deals with:

"the military function of the nuraghi in relation to tactics and strategy, their territorial distribution and spatial patterning; models for the interpretations of the social and economic development in nuragic society; the social significance of the nuraghi; and the art of warfare from the evidence of related finds."

See https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-48/

Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma in the series

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Arte militare e architettura nuragica. Nuragic architecture in its military, territorial and socio-e…

23/03/2023

/ : The Eight International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens dealt with the function of the "Minoan villa".

"Among the problems treated are: the origin of the “villa system”, the definition of the “villa”, the architectural analysis of buildings and building complexes, the magico-religious background of the “villa”, the role of religious painting, the origin of the Cretan andreion, and a study of ceramic exchange between towns and outlying settlements in Neopalatial eastern Crete."

See https://ecsi.se/actaath-4-46/ and reviews in AJA ( https://doi.org/10.2307/506589 ) and CR ( https://www.jstor.org/stable/3065https://www.jstor.org/stable/3065364

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens in the series . Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd.

16/03/2023

/ : This week we go back to 1992, a year that saw the publication of Lars Karlsson's book Fortification towers and masonry techniques in the hegemony of Syracuse, 405–211 B.C.

"Syracuse assumed the leadership of the Greek cities after the Carthaginian wars of 409–405 B.C. and the first chapter discusses the four main periods which can be discerned in the archaeological material: (1) the rule of Dionysios I, 405–367 B.C., (2) the period of Timoleon, 244–c. 316 B.C., (3) Agathokles, 316–289 B.C., and (4) the rule of King Hieron II, 270/69–215 B.C. Pyrrhos, as king of Syracuse in 278–276 B.C., was also responsible for work on Sicilian fortifications. ... "

Read more at https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-49/

Published by Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma in the series

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Fortification towers and masonry techniques in the hegemony of Syracuse, 405–211 B.C. By Lars Karlss…

09/03/2023

/ : The conference volume Current approaches to religion in ancient Greece was published in 2011.

"This volume brings together fourteen contributions from a group of upcoming international scholars, presented at a conference held in the Swedish Institute at Athens and the British School at Athens in 2008. The papers take a wide range of approaches: archaeological, epigraphic, iconographical, philological and historical. They demonstrate the diversity of the subject, covering such issues as nineteenth-century historiography, cult epithets, the pantheon, regionalism, polis religion, the performance of ritual, the use of music in ritual, the accessibility of sacred space, and the visual aspects of dedications. The contributions bring new theoretical perspectives, seek to better understand ritual, and highlight the variety of Greek religion."

Published in the series by the Swedish Institute at Athens

Now available for purchase at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Bokus.com, Adlibris.com, and Bokorder.se Current approaches to religion in ancient Greece. Papers presented at a symposium at the Swedish Instit…

27/02/2023

23/02/2023

/ : The conference volume Encounters with Mycenaean figures and figurines was published in 2009. Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens.

The book was reviewed by Melissa Vetters in Gnomon:

"Der Band bietet vielfältige Anregungen, mykenische Figurinen nicht als Einzelobjekte, sondern als Teil mykenischer Lebenswelten zu untersuchen und gibt über die mykenische Figuralplastik hinaus innovative Anstöße für die Terrakottenforschung im Allgemeinen."
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23501980

For more information, see

Now available for purchase at Amazon.com, Amazon.de, Bokus.com, Adlibris.com. Distributed by Eddy.se AB. Encounters with Mycenaean figures and figurines. Papers presented at a seminar at the Swedis…

21/02/2023

Happy to announce that we have a spring sale this year as well! Have a look at https://ecsi.se/spring-sale-2023/

16/02/2023

l’Istituto pubblica studi scientifici nell’ambito delle sue discipline tradizionali: archeologia e storia dell’arte antica, filologia classica e storia dell’arte. Delle pubblicazioni è responsabile un comitato scientifico che cura anche le pubblicazioni dell’Istituto Svedese di Atene. Il comitato scientifico è composto da accademici delle università di Göteborg, Lund, Stoccolma e Uppsala, oltre che dai direttori dei due istituti di Roma e Atene. I contributi inviati alla redazione sono sottoposti a un procedimento di revisione.

Svenska institutet ger ut vetenskapliga publikationer inom ramen för institutets ämnen: antikens kultur och samhällsliv samt konstvetenskap. För dessa publikationer ansvarar Publikationsnämnden vid de Svenska Instituten i Rom och Athen. Publikationsnämnden är sammansatt av akademiker från universiteten i Göteborg, Lund, Stockholm och Uppsala samt cheferna för det Svenska Institutet i Rom och det Svenska Institutet i Athen. Nämnden antar bidrag efter att ha arrangerat referee-granskning.

The Swedish institute’s publications reflect scholarly work in the fields traditionally represented by the Institute: classical art and archaeology, classical philology, history of art and architecture.
The Editorial Board is responsible for the publications of the institutes of Rome and Athens. Manuscripts submitted for publication to the Editorial Board are subject to peer review, in order to evaluate the sufficiency of contribution and the technical standards.

For further information: www.ecsi.se

16/02/2023

/ : The proceedings of the first Deliciae Fictiles Conference was published thirty years ago in the Acta-series of Svenska Institutet i Rom - Istituto Svedese di Studi Classici a Roma. See https://ecsi.se/actarom-4-50/
Distributed by Astrom Editions Ltd

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Deliciae fictiles. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Central Italic Architectural…

01/02/2023

📣Proudly presenting our new book!

Going against the flow. Wells, cisterns and water in ancient Greece

Edited by Patrik Klingborg, published by the Swedish Institute at Athens in the series .

All content available with at https://doi.org/10.30549/actaath-8-23

Printed edition distributed by eddy.se AB at https://www.bokorder.se/sv/books-4748/ and available at resellers.

Enjoy!

23/01/2023

Wel­come to the Spring 2023 se­ries of the Athens Greek Re­li­gion Sem­i­nar.

23/01/2023

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