Pigs in ancient Greek Society: From colloquial porkers to sacrificial swine

The Swedish and Finnish In­sti­tutes at Athens in­vite you to the work­shop 

Pigs in An­cient Greece. From Col­lo­quial Pork­ers to sac­ri­fi­cial swine.

The work­shop takes place on Fri­day, Oc­to­ber 24, 2025, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

Var­i­ous as­pects of porcine an­i­mals will be dis­cussed dur­ing the one day pro­gramme.

Pro­gramme

09.30
Pe­tra Pakka­nen and Jenny Wal­len­sten
Wel­come words

09.45
Gun­nel Ekroth and Fil­ippo Lep­ori (Uni­ver­sity of Up­p­sala)
Pigs as sac­ri­fice: Prob­lem­atic, pol­luted or sim­ply pork?

10:30
Pe­tra Pakka­nen (Finnish In­sti­tute at Athens)
No skin off pig’s back. Pig-skin as a rea­son for the par­tic­u­lar­ity of a pig in an­cient Greek sources

Coffee break

11:45
Quentin Zarka (Uni­ver­sité Paris 1 Pan­théon, Sor­bonne)
The boar’s tusk hel­mets of Late Bronze Age Myce­nae: Lit­er­a­ture, iconog­ra­phy, and tech­no­log­i­cal analy­sis in di­a­logue

Lunch break

14:15
Samuel Gart­land (Uni­ver­sity of Leeds)
Comic pigs in an­cient Greece

15:00
Jenny Wal­len­sten (Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens)
I’ll call you a pig if I want to: Notes on pig ono­mas­tics

15:45
Cristy Con­stan­ta­kopoulou (Na­tional Hel­lenic Re­search Foun­da­tion)
Pigs on De­los: A cost analy­sis

Warmly wel­come!

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