You are invited to an online lecture on Thursday January 15th 2026 at 19.00 pm (Greek time) 17.00 pm (Ireland time), 12.00 pm (Standard Eastern Time) by Dermot Grant (Trinity College Dublin) on Illustrating the mobility of cults on trade networks and navigation routes in the central Aegean. Apollo and Artemis as a case study.

Abstract: Maritime sanctuaries have been described as nodes of ‘seaborne connections supported by always evolving and adapting sets of myth and ritual, moving alongside actual goods and people’ (Kowalzig 2018, 95–95). Apollo and Artemis sanctuaries have a disproportionate presence across the Cyclades and to Chios and north to Skyros and Volos, and Artemis threading its way through the Euboean Gulf, although not necessarily with the same epithets. The diffusion of the Delia cults, with Apollo accompanying Artemis, are often venerated as parallel cults (Angliker 2022, 247). Using Apollo and Artemis sanctuaries in the Central Aegean as a case study, this presentation will attempt to identify the drivers of the mobility of the cults, including trade and navigation networks and within highly connected economic communities.
Cited bibliography
Angliker, E. (2022). Insights into the Cult and Apollo and Artemis at the Parian Sanctuaries. In E. Guillon, A. Latzer-Lasar, S. Lebreton, M. Luaces, F. Porzia, E. Rubens Urciuoli, J. Rupke, & C. Bonnet (eds), Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean (Vol. 1, pp. 247–271). De Gruyter.

Kowalzig, B. (2018). Cults, Cabotage, and Connectivity. In C. Knappet (ed.), Maritime Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge University Press.

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