!!Gunnel Ekroth - Publications
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__Publications 2023-04-24__\\
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__Monographs__\\
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1.	The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods. Stockholm 1999. Unprinted dissertation. 313p.\\
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2.	The sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults in the Archaic to the early Hellenistic periods (Kernos supplément 12), Liège 2002. 429p.\\
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__Edited volumes__\\
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3.	Institutionens historier. En vänbok till Gullög Nordquist, eds. E. Weiberg, S. Carlsson & G. Ekroth, Uppsala 2013.\\
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4.	Bones, behaviour and beliefs. The zooarchaeological evidence as a source for ritual practice in ancient Greece and beyond (ActaAth-4°, 55), eds. G. Ekroth & J. Wallensten, Stockholm 2013.\\
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5.	Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition. Visits to the Underworld from antiquity to Byzantium (Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 2), eds. G. Ekroth & I. Nilsson, Leiden 2018.\\
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6.	From snout to tail. Exploring the Greek sacrificial animal from the literary, epigraphical, iconographical, archaeological and zooarchaeological evidence, eds. J.-M. Carbon & G. Ekroth (accepted for publication).\\
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7.	A celebration of Martin P. Nilsson, eds. J. Wallensten & G. Ekroth (accepted for publication).\\
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__Edited volumes in preparation__\\
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8.	Logistics in Greek sanctuaries. Exploring the human experience of visiting the gods, eds., J.M. Barringer, G. Ekroth & D. Scahill.\\
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__Papers__\\
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9.	‘Swedish archaeology 1986-1990: Greece and the Aegean’, Current Swedish Archaeology 2, 1994, 181-196.\\
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10.	‘The Late Geometric and Archaic periods’, in The Berbati-Limnes archaeological survey 1988-1990 (ActaAth-4°, 44), ed. B. Wells, Stockholm 1996, 179-227.\\
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11.	‘The Berbati Valley Project: the 1994 season. Excavations by the tholos tomb’, Opuscula Atheniensia 21, 1996, 191-201.\\
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12.	‘Altars in Greek hero-cults. A review of the archaeological evidence’, in Ancient Greek cult practice from the archaeological evidence. Proceedings of the Fourth international seminar on ancient Greek cult, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens 22-24 October 1993 (ActaAth-8°, 15), ed. R. Hägg, Stockholm 1998, 117-130.\\
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13.	‘Pausanias and the sacrificial rituals of Greek hero-cults’, in Ancient Greek hero cult. Proceedings of the Fifth international seminar on ancient Greek cult, organized by the Department of classical archaeology and ancient history, Göteborg university, 21-23 April 1995 (ActaAth-8°, 16), ed. R. Hägg, Stockholm 1999, 145-158.\\
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14.	‘Offerings of blood in Greek hero-cults’, in Héros et héroïnes dans les mythes et les cultes grecs (Kernos supplément 10), eds. V. Pirenne-Delforge & E. Suárez de la Torre, Liège 2000, 263-280.\\
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15.	‘Altars on Attic vases: the identification of bomos and eschara’, in Ceramics in context. Proceedings of the Internordic colloquium on ancient pottery held at Stockholm 13-15 June 1997 (Acta univ. Stock. Stockholm studies in classical archaeology, 12), ed. Ch. Scheffer, Stockholm 2001, 115-126.\\
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16.	In collaboration with A.-L. Schallin, ‘Excavations at Midea 2000 and 2001. Middle terraces and East Gate area’, Opuscula Atheniensia 27, 2002, 39-40.\\
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17.	In collaboration with A.-L. Schallin, ‘Excavations at Midea 2000 and 2001. Excavations at the East Gate’, Opuscula Atheniensia 27, 2002, 55-56.\\
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18.	‘Small pots, poor people? The use and function of miniature pottery as votive offerings in Archaic sanctuaries in the Argolid and the Corinthia’, in Griechische Keramik im kulturellen Kontext. Akten des Internationalen Vasen-Symposions in Kiel vom 24. bis 28.9.2001 veranstaltet durch das Archäologishe Institut der Christian-Albrechts-Universitet zu Kiel, eds. B. Schmaltz & M. Söldner, Münster 2003, 35-37.\\
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19.	‘Inventing Iphigeneia? On Euripides and the cultic composition of Brauron’, Kernos 16, 2003, 59-118.\\
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20.	‘Blood on the altars? On the treatment of blood at Greek sacrifices and the iconographical evidence’, Antike Kunst 48, 2005, 9-29.\\
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21.	‘Iconographical evidence for the treatment of animal blood at Greek sacrifices’, in Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003. Common ground: archaeology, art, science, and humanities, eds. C.C. Mattusch, A.A. Donohue & A. Brauer, Oxford 2006, 40-43.\\
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22.	‘Heroes and hero cults’, in A companion to Greek religion (Blackwell companions to the ancient world), ed. D. Ogden, Oxford 2007, 100-114.\\
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23.	‘Meat in ancient Greece: sacrificial, sacred or secular?’, Food and history 5:1, 2007, 249-272.\\
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24.	‘Mat och status. Om fördelningen av kött mellan människor och gudar i antik grekisk offerritual’, in Arkeologi och identitet. VIII Nordic TAG i Lund 2005 (Acta archaeologica lundensia 8°, 53), eds. B. Petersson & P. Skoglund, Lund 2008, 189-206. \\
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25.	‘Meat, man and god. On the division of meat at Greek animal sacrifices’, in Mikron hieromnemon. Meletes eis mnemen Michael H. Jameson (Horoi. He mikre bibliotheke 3), eds. A. P. Matthaiou & I. Polinskaya, Athen 2008, 259-290.\\
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26.	‘Burnt, cooked or raw? Divine and human culinary desires at Greek animal sacrifice’, in Transformations in Sacrificial Practices. From Antiquity to the Modern Times. Proceedings of an International Colloquium, Heidelberg, 12-14 July 2006, Heidelberg (Performances: Intercultural Studies on Ritual, Play and Theatre 15), eds. E. Stavrianopoulou, A. Michaels & C. Ambos, Berlin 2008, 87-111. \\
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27.	‘Thighs or tails? The osteological evidence as a source for Greek ritual norms’, in La norme en matière religieuse dans la Grèce ancienne. Actes du XIe colloque du CIERGA (Rennes, septembre 2007) (Kernos supplément 21), ed. P. Brulé, Liège 2009, 125-151.\\
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28.	‘The cult of heroes’, in Heroes! Mortals and myths in ancient Greece. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, ed. S. Albersmeier, Baltimore 2009, 120-143.\\
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29.	‘Why (not) paint an altar? A study of when, where and why altars appear on Attic red-figure vases’, in The world of Greek vases (Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, suppl. 41), eds. V. Nørskov, L. Hannestad, C. Isler-Kerenyi & S. Lewis, Rome 2009, 89-114.\\
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30.	‘Theseus and the stone. The iconographic and ritual contexts of a Greek votive relief in the Louvre’, in Divine Images and Human Imaginations in ancient Greece and Rome (Religions in the Graeco-Roman world 170), ed. J. Mylonopoulos, Leiden 2010, 143-169.\\
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31.	‘”En grillad, tack!” Varför homeriska hjältar inte kokade sin mat’, in Tankemönster. Festskrift till Eva Rystedt, eds. F. Faegersten, J. Wallensten & I. Östenberg, Lund 2010, 53-60.\\
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32.	‘Meat for the gods’, in «Nourrir les dieux?» Sacrifice et representation du divin. Actes de la Vie rencontre du Groupe de recherche européen «FIGURA. Représentation du divin dans les sociétés grecque et romaine» (Université de Liège, 23-24 octobre 2009) (Kernos, supplément 26), eds. V. Pirenne-Delforge & F. Prescendi, Liège 2011, 15-41.\\
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33.	‘Pelops joins the party. Transformation of a hero-cult within the festival at Olympia’, in Greek and Roman festivals. Content, meaning, and practice, eds. J.R. Brandt & J.W. Iddeng, Oxford 2012, 95-137.\\
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34.	‘Forelegs in Greek cult’, in Perspectives on ancient Greece. Papers in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens (ActaAth-8º, 22) ed. A.-L. Schallin, Stockholm 2013, 114-134.\\
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35.	‘Mytologiska matkrig. Ett ganska okänt rödfigurigt vasmotiv’, in Institutionens historier. En vänbok till Gullög Nordquist, eds. E. Weiberg, S. Carlsson & G. Ekroth, Uppsala 2013, 51-60. \\
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36.	In collaboration with J. Wallensten, ‘Introduction: bones of contention?’, in Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for ritual practice in ancient Greece and beyond (ActaAth-4°, 55), eds. G. Ekroth & J. Wallensten, Stockholm 2013, 9-13.\\
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37.	‘What we would like the bones to tell us: a sacrificial wish list’, in Bones, behaviour and belief. The osteological evidence as a source for ritual practice in ancient Greece and beyond (ActaAth-4°, 55), eds. G. Ekroth & J. Wallensten, Stockholm 2013, 15-30.\\
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38.	‘Between bronze and clay. The origin of an Argive, Archaic votive shape’, in Forgerons, élites et voyageurs d’Homère à nos jours. Hommages en mémoire d’Isabelle Ratinaud-Lachkar (La pierre & l’écrit), eds. M.-C. Ferriès, M.P. Castiglioni & F. Letoublon, Grenoble 2013, 63-77.\\
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39.	‘Response to Göran Eidevall’, Svensk exegetisk årsbok 78, 2013, 47-55.\\
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40.	‘A note on minced meat in ancient Greece’, in LABRYS. Papers presented to Pontus Hellström (Boreas 35), eds. L. Karlsson, S. Carlsson & J. Blid Kullberg, Uppsala 2014, 223-235.\\
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41.	‘Animal sacrifice in antiquity’, in The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Animals (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History), ed. G.L. Campbell, Oxford 2014, 324-354.\\
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42.	‘Homeric echoes? Archaizing language in Greek religious inscriptions’, in Öffentlichkeit-Monument-Text. XIV congressus internationalis epigraphiae graecae et latinae 27.-31. Augusti MMXII. Akten, eds. W. Eck & P. Funke, Berlin 2014, 619-621.\\
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43.	‘Castration, cult and agriculture. Perspectives on Greek animal sacrifice’, Opuscula 7, 2014, 153-174.\\
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44.	‘Heroes: living or dead?’, in Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, eds. E. Eidinow & J. Kindt, Oxford 2015, 383-396.\\
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45.	In collaboration with Michael Lindblom, ‘Heroes, ancestors or just any old bones? Contextualizing the consecration of human remains from the Mycenaean shaft graves at Lerna in the Argolid’, in Metaphysis. Ritual, myth and symbolism in the Aegean Bronze Age. Proceedings of the 15th international Aegean conference, Vienna, 22-25 April 2014, eds. E. Alram-Stern et al., Leuven 2016, 235-243.\\
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46.	‘A view from the Greek side. Interpretations of animal bones as evidence for sacrifice and ritual consumption’, Journal of ancient Judaism 7, 2016, 35-50.\\
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47.	‘Sacred meals in ancient Greece? Dining in domestic settings as compared to sanctuaries’, in The Eucharist – Its Origins and Context. Sacred Meal, Communal Meal, Table Fellowship in Late Antiquity, Early Judaism and Early Christianity, eds. D. Hellholm & D. Sänger, Tübingen 2017, 1389-1411.\\
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48.	‘Bare bones. Zooarchaeology and Greek sacrifice’, in Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world, eds. S. Hitch & I. Rutherford, Cambridge 2017, 15-47.\\
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49.	‘“Don’t throw any bones in the sanctuary!” On the handling of sacred waste at ancient Greek cult places’, in Ritual matters: Material remains and ancient religion (Supplements to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome), eds. C. Moser & J. Knust, Philadelphia 2017, 33-55.\\
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50.	‘Holocaustic sacrifices in ancient Greek religion: Some comments on practice and theory’, in Animal sacrifice in ancient Greece. Proceedings of the first international workshops in Kraków, ed. K. Bielawski, Warsaw 2017, 45-66.\\
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51.	‘The crocodile on Samos or Africa in the Aegean’, in The resilience of heritage. Cultivating a future of the past. Essays in honour of Professor Paul J.J. Sinclair (Studies in global archaeology 23), eds. A. Ekblom, Ch. Isendahl & K.-J. Lindholm, Uppsala 2018, 61-68.\\
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52.	Together with I. Nilsson, ‘Introduction’, in Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition. Visits to the Underworld from antiquity to Byzantium (Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 2), eds. G. Ekroth & I. Nilsson, Leiden 2018, 1-10.\\
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53.	‘Hades, Homer and the Hittites. The cultic-cultural context of Odysseus’ ‘round trip’ to the Underworld’, in Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition. Visits to the Underworld from antiquity to Byzantium (Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 2), eds. G. Ekroth & I. Nilsson, Leiden 2018, 37-56.\\
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54.	‘Vernant et les os. Théorie et practique du sacrifice grec’, in Relire Vernant, eds. S. Georgoudi & F. de Polignac, Paris 2018, 83-115.\\
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55.	‘Holocaustic sacrifices in ancient Greek religion and the ritual relations to the Levant’, in Change, continuity, and connectivity. North-Eastern Mediterranean at the turn of the Bronze Age and in the early Iron Age (Philippika, 118), eds. L. Niesiolowski-Spanò & M. Wecowski, Wiesbaden 2018, 308-326.\\
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56.	‘Men vad håller kentauren i handen? Avbildningar av och attityder till köttkonsumtion i antikens Grekland’, in Kungl. Vitterhets, Historie och Antikvitets Akademien. Årsbok 2018, Stockholm 2018, 165-182.\\
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57.	‘Why does Zeus care about burnt thighbones from sheep? Defining the divine and structuring the world through animal sacrifice in ancient Greece’, History of religions 58, 2019, 225-250.\\
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58.	‘École de Paris. Praising or debasing an approach to the study of Greek sacrifice’, in Qu'est-ce que faire école ? Regards sur « l'école de Paris ». Cahiers “Mondes Anciens” 13, 2020, online.\\
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59.	‘Den ”oheliga” helgedomen? Om mötet mellan gudar och människor i antik grekisk religion’, in Annales Societatis Litterarum Humaniorum Regiae Upsaliensis. Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. Årsbok 2019-2020, ed. M. Kytö, Uppsala 2021, 5-28.\\
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60.	‘Behind closed doors? Greek sacrificial rituals performed inside buildings in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic period’, in Around the hearth. Ritual and commensal practices in the Mediterranean Iron Age from the Aegean world to the Iberian peninsula, eds. J. Lamaze & M. Bastide, Berlin 2021, 13-39.\\
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61.	‘Citizens as drinkers? A glimpse from the countryside of the Archaic Argolid’, in Politeia and koinônia. Studies in ancient Greek history in honour of Josine Blok, eds. V. Pirenne-Delforge & M. Węcowski, Leiden 2023, 46-64.\\
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62.	‘Rings, pits, bone and ash: Greek altars in context’, in Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult II. Sacred architecture, sacred space, sacred objects: An international colloquium in honour of Erik Hansen (=Acta Archaeologica 93.1), eds. J.T. Jensen & G. Hinge, Leiden 2022, 161-177.\\ \\[{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW edit gekroth}][{ALLOW upload gekroth}][{ALLOW comment All}]
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