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. Opuscula Atheniensia. Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens 24, 1999 Contents Donald W. Jones, ‘The archaeology and economy of Homeric gift exchange’ Donald W. Jones, ‘The conundrum of Greek population growth in the 8th century B.C. Burials, settlements, and wells’ Jane F. Lloyd, ‘The three-dimensional form of the light area of the Minoan hall system and the southeast corner of the South Hous at Knossos’ Jari Pakkanen, ‘Defining the possible column shaft height range and profile. A case study based on the temple of Zeus at Labraunda’ Eva Rystedt, ‘No words, only pictures. Iconography in the transition between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age in Greece’ Zofia Stos-Gale, Maria Kayafa & Noel Gale, ‘The origin of metals from the Bronze Age site of Nichoria’ Lars Walløe, ‘Was the disruption of the Mycenaean world caused by repeated epidemics of bubonic plague?’ Book reviews Jeannette Forsén, ‘E. Christmann, Die Deutschen Ausgrabungen auf der Pevkakia-Magula in Thessalien II. Die Frühe Bronzezeit’ Jeannette Forsén, ‘J.B. Rutter, Lerna III. The pottery of Lerna IV‘ Michael Wedde, ‘K. Sbonias, Frühkretische Siegel. Ansätze für eine Interpretation der sozialpolitischen Entwicklung auf Kreta während der Frühbronzezeit’ Ann-Louise…