Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Myth and cult. The iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Martin P. Nilsson Lectures on Greek Religion, delivered 19–21 November 1990 at the Swedish Institute at Athens By Kevin Clinton Abstract Iconography serves as the starting part for the treatment of central aspects of the myth and cult of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The presence of the Mirthless Ro...

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 Karlsson Abstract 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 Dionys...

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Legatus. Beiträge zur römischen Verwaltungsgeschichte By Bengt E. Thomasson Bibliographical information Bengt E. Thomasson, Legatus. Beiträge zur römischen Verwaltungsgeschichte (Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Rom, 8°, 18), Stockholm 1991. ISSN 0283-8389....

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Munuscula Romana. Papers read at a conference in Lund (October 1–2, 1988) in celebration of the re-opening of the Swedish Institute in Rome Edited by Anne-Marie Leander Touati, Eva Rystedt & Örjan Wikander. Preface In October 1988, the Swedish Institute in Rome was reopened after a period of renovation. From the point of view of Class...

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-economic context. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Nuragic Architecture at the Swedish Institute in Rome, 7–9 December, 1989 Edited by Barbro Santillo Frizell Abstract Twelve papers given at the first international colloqu...

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Venus Armata. Studien zur bewaffneten Aphrodite in der griechisch-römischen Kunst By Johan Flemberg Abstract In the first part of this study, the evidence for the Oriental origin of Aphrodite is reviewed and it is suggested that the armed Aphrodite was introduced in Greece during the Mycenaean era and possibly, similar to her Oriental counterparts, had some c...

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. The spoils of Jerusalem on the Arch of Titus. A re-investigation By Leon Yarden Abstract Leon Yarden published his doctoral thesis in a revised form under the title The tree of life (London 1971). Its subject was the menorah (seven-branched lampstand) depicted on the Arch of Titus in Rome as a part of the spoils from the destruction of the T...

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Celebrations of death and divinity in the Bronze Age Argolid. Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11–13 June, 1988 Edited by Robin Hägg & Gullög C. Nordquist Abstract Twenty-four papers on various aspects of burial customs and religious cult practice in the region Argolis (Greece) during the Bronze Age, ...

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Atheniensia 18 Contents Articles Paul Åström, Katie Demakopoulou, Nicoletta Divari-Valakou, Peter M. Fischer & Gisela Walberg, ‘Excavations in Midea 1987’, 9–22. Birgitta Bergquist, ‘Primary or secondary temple function: the case of Halieis’, 23–37. Danali-Giole, ‘Ikonographische Beobachtungen zu drei Mythologischen Themen: Pentheu...

Published by the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Opuscula Romana 18 Contents Articles Jesper Svenbro, ‘La Cigale et les fourmis. Voix et écriture dans une allégorie grecque’ Kristina Berggren, ‘The Capestrano warrior and the Numana head. A structuralist semiotic interpretation’ Ragnhild Billig, ‘Bilder und Bodenfunde. Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntnis der spätantiken Stadt’ Hell...