Project Leader: Floris van den Eijnde The ASP collects information on all Ancient cult sites in Attica, Greece. The results will be published as a monograph. Students are invited to collaborate with the project leader in collecting archaeological, epigraphical and literary data. Apart from contributing material to the final publication, students are invited to present…

Sacrality and the Greek Polis collaborates with the unique Waterloo Uncovered project to provide students with first hand experience in field archaeology. Through SGP, Utrecht University runs three courses in collaboration with Waterloo Uncovered, a ground breaking organization that, since 2015, conducts archaeological research on the site of the battle of Waterloo whilst also supporting the…

Memory and Innovation: Architectural developments in the sanctuaries of Central Greece and Northern Peloponnese (8th – 4th century BC) Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant This project, part of the Anchoring Innovation research agenda in 2020-2021, aims at exploring the architectural developments in Central Greece and the Northern Peloponnese from the 8th to the 4th century BC. The…

Floris van den Eijnde, Alma Kant, Helle Hochscheid

Floris van den Eijnde, Amber Brüsewitz, Alma Kant The mines of Laurion are a symbol of the Golden Age of Athens that lasted from 508/7 to 404/3 BC. With the silver from Laurion, the Athenian statesman Themistocles had a large fleet of triremes built that heralded the downfall of the Persian invasion of 480/79. The…

Alma Kant Anchoring the Agora in Archaic and Classical Greek Poleis (c. 800-300 BCE) aims to understand how the agora emerged and evolved as a product of societal change and institutional innovation during the archaic and classical period. The agora, often described as the heart of the Greek city, has long been a subject of study….

Dr. Helle Hochscheid Although it is rarely acknowledged, the appearance of Greek sanctuaries was very much shaped by the skill and quality of craftsmen, who built shrines and temples, who carved and inscribed altars and statues, and who wove, turned, cut, cast, moulded, hammered or created in a myriad other ways the objects that made…

Floris van den Eijnde, Janric van Rookhuijzen The Acropolis is a site with rich archaeological remains and with a wealth of historical source material. This also makes it a complex, convoluted, and difficult site to study. The aim of this project is to bring together existing knowledge about individual sites on the Acropolis or on its…