Reconstructing Greek Sacred Landscapes

Samuel Verdan is senior researcher at the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. He has directed excavations in Eretria (Euboea) and taught at the University of Lausanne. He studies Early Iron Age pottery and is collaborating in the exploration and study of the Artemision at Amarynthos. He has published the Geometric phases of the sanctuary of Apollo at Eretria and a study on Eretrian Geometric pottery. He has edited a volume on pottery quantification and a book devoted to a Gulag camp.Sylvian Fachard is Full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. Formerly A.W. Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, he has held research positions at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Brown University. His work focuses on Greek fortifications and the territorial organization of poleis, promoting a landscape approach for the study of rural fortifications. He directed surveys and excavations in Eretria and Amarynthos. He's the co-editor of the Athens and Attica in Prehistory volume with Archaeopress, the co-editor of The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World, CUP, 2021, with E. Harris.Thierry Theurillat has served as Assistant director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG) since 2001. He has directed excavations at Eretria and Amarynthos, co-authored the monograph on the Roman baths at Eretria, and co-edited a catalogue for the exhibition on Eretria. His research focuses on Early Iron Age Greece, with interests in the origins of alphabetic writing, settlement development, and the sanctuary of Artemis at Amarynthos.

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• INTRODUCTION – Samuel Verdan, Sylvian Fachard, Thierry Theurillat  I. METHODS AND INSPIRATIONS1. Samuel Verdan – Between Paysage Religieux and Sacred Landscape: On the Use and Meaning of Terms / Entre paysage religieux et sacred landscape: questions de définitions 2. Romain Simenel – Landscapes of Baraka: Mausoleums, Ruins and Boundary Markers in Morocco 3. Raphaël Rosseleau – Entre la forêt et l’Océan, le temple. Le paysage religieux à Puri (Odisha, Inde)  II. LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON GREEK SACRED LANDSCAPES4. François de Polignac – Perceptions et constructions du paysage religieux en Grèce ancienne : formes et fonctions de la centralité 5. Madeleine Jost – Quel paysage religieux en Arcadie sans Pausanias? 6. John Bintliff, Anthony Snodgrass, Phil Howard, Christel Müller – The Sanctuary of the Muses in Context: The Contribution of Landscape Archaeology 7. Birgitta Eder – Between Zeus and Poseidon: Sacred Landscapes around Olympia and Samikon 8. Katja Sporn – Kalapodi and the Evolution of a Sacred Landscape in Ancient Phokis 9. Jan Paul Crielaard – Towards a Reconstruction of the Cultic Landscape of Archaic and Classical Karystia 10. Catherine Morgan – Between Political Community and Sacred Landscape in Archaic Northwest Greece (ca. 850–470 BCE) 11. Michael Kerschner – Cultic Space, Cultic Landscape and Mythical Landscape in Ephesos 12. Lorenz E. Baumer – Un réseau à plusieurs couches – dynamiques du paysage religieux de l’Attique envisagé dans la longue durée 13. Fotini Kondyli –  Sacred Spaces, Natural Places: The Role of the Natural Environment in Byzantine Religious Life  III. INTERSECTING PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARTEMISION AT AMARYNTHOSIntroduction  14. Denis Knoepfler – A Kome and a Hieron Unlike any Other? Amarynthos within the Political and Religious Structure of the Eretrian Polis 15. Sylvian Fachard, Angeliki G. Simosi, Chloé Chezeaux – Tracing the Sacred in the Eretria-Amarynthos Survey Project 16. Samuel Verdan, Tamara Saggini, Tobias Krapf, Jérôme André, Olga Kyriazi, Thierry Theurillat – The Landscape and the Sanctuary: Wild Spaces, Waters and Ruins at Amarynthos