Project leader(s)
Hélène Aurigny / Guillaume Biard / Cécile Durvye
Laboratory(s)
CCJ / TDMAM
The aim of this project is to set up an Internationally recognized research network on the construction of local pantheons in Greek religion, focusing on three well-documented sites: Argos, Delos and Thasos. Our approach to this already richly bibliographed subject aims to understand how polytheism worked in practice, basing our analysis on both all available local sources and the representations given of it in literature. The perspective is therefore fundamentally multi-disciplinary, both in terms of the diversity of sources and the disciplines called upon to deal with them, as reflected by the project sponsors (archaeology, history, classics).
A better understanding of how cults functioned on a local scale, the distribution of functions by divinity and changes over time will shed light on the ways in which cults and their representation were structured in relation to the expression of political and social communities.
The strong institutional partnerships on which we are relying and the contacts we have already established with specialists in these issues will enable this project to be implemented within the allotted 18-month timeframe.
Partner(s):
- French School of Athens
- Swedish Institute at Athens