Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. Peloponnesian sanctuaries and cults. Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11–13 June 1994 Edited by Robin Hägg Abstract A collection of twenty-six papers read (or presented as posters) at an international symposium in Athens that dealt with various aspects of the ancient sanctuaries and cults in the Peloponnese, based on literary, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are a newly excavated, Mycenaean sanctuary at Methana, the formation of sacred landscapes, Corinthian cult in the Late Geometric period, sacred places in early urban contexts (Argos), caves and cults at Isthmia, cults of Demeter and Kore, the sanctuary of Hera Akraia at Perachora, the Herakleidai in the Argive plain, the Archaic and Hellenistic temples at Mycenae, cult places in Argos, cults of Athena in Argos, mountain-top cults in Corinthia and the Argolid, new investigations of small cult buildings in the Asklepieion of Epidauros, results of recent work in the sanctuary of Athena Alea at Steges, Herakles and healing cults, sanctuaries of Artemis in the Peloponnese, the reality of the human sacrifices on Mr. Lykaion, the new excavation in the sanctuary of Zeus…

Published by the Swedish Institute at Athens. Distributed by Astrom Editions. The role of religion in the early Greek polis. Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 16–18 October 1992 Edited by Robin Hägg Abstract These twelve papers read at an international seminar in Athens deal with various aspects of the role of religion in the early Greek polis, based on the epigraphical, iconographical and archaeological evidence. Among the special topics discussed are territorial myths and the mythical articulations with regard to the early polis, the Greek temple-builders, the distribution of offerings and rituals between graves and sanctuaries, the development of sacred and profane civic ideology in Athens, processions (pompai), verbal and ritual obscenity in women’s cults, prohibitionary inscriptions, the role of the seer, the Thesmophorion in central Athens, the cults in Solonian Athens, cults by the seashore and Dionysos at Argos. Contents Preface (p. 7) Irad Malkin, ‘The polis between myths of land and territory’, pp. 9–19. Walter Burkert, ‘Greek temple builders: who, where and why?’, pp. 21–29. François de Polignac, ‘Entre les dieux et les morts. Statut individual et rites collectifs dans la cite archaïque’, pp. 31–40. Sanne…