The Swedish Institute at Athens has the pleasure to invite you to attend
THE MARTIN P. NILSSON LECTURE ON GREEK RELIGION
“On the Giants’ Shoulders”. The Eleusinian mysteries in the Roman period, between historiography, literary traditions and epigraphy
by Nicole Belayche, Directeure d’études (Pr.) émérite, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris.
Limited live attendance in accordance with the current health safety measures, and zoom participation.
To register for both please contact [email protected].
Lectures in ancient Greek religion in memory of Martin P. Nilsson are organized biannually at the Swedish Institute.
Martin Persson Nilsson (1874–1967) was a Swedish philologist, and a scholar of the Greek and Roman religious systems. In his prolific studies, he combined the literary evidence with the archaeological evidence, linking historic and prehistoric evidence for the evolution of the Greek mythological cycles. In 1909 he was appointed the first Professor of Ancient Greek, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University.
Nilsson is perhaps the most influential Swedish classicist of all times. His best-known work in German is Geschichte der griechischen Religion in the Handbuch der Altertumswissenschaft. He had previously published it under the title Den grekiska religionens historia (1922). His best-known work in English is Minoan-Mycenaean religion, and its survival in Greek religion.
Lectures in ancient Greek religion in memory of Martin P. Nilsson are organized biannually at the Swedish Institute.