Presenting a new animation about the Saturnalia festival, produced by Fettle Animation in collaboration with The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.

Presenting a new animation about the Great Dionysia festival, produced by Fettle Animation in collaboration with The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.

Presenting a new animation about the Panathenaia festival, produced by Fettle Animation in collaboration with The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.

Presenting a new animation about the Lupercalia festival, produced by Fettle Animation in collaboration with The Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Alexandra Sofroniew (‘From public to private: votive religion returns to the home’) on 4th May 2023.

Professor Gunnel Ekroth and Dr Jack Lennon discuss ritual uses of water in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

In this video recording from our seminar series ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’, Michael Bamforth and Dr Katie Rask discuss ritual uses of wood in the ancient world.

Professor Adeline Grand-Clément and Professor Anne Katrine de Hemmer Gudme discuss ritual uses of water in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Dr Signe Barfoed and Dr Anna Perdibon discuss ritual uses of water in ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Professor Hugh Bowden and Professor Richard Gordon discuss ritual uses of lead in ancient Greece and Rome, in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Mary Danisi and Dr Alexandra Sofroniew discuss fabric and weaving in ancient Greece and pre-Roman Italy in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Dr Stephanie Langin-Hooper and Dr Anna-Katharina Rieger discuss clay in ancient Rome and Babylonia in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Dr Cameron McNeil and Dr Patty Baker discuss flowers in ancient Mayan and ancient Roman rituals in this video recording from ‘The Materials of Ancient Religion’ seminar series.

Recordings of presentations from ‘The Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Ancient Italy’, an online workshop organised jointly by the Accordia Research Institute, the Baron Thyssen Centre for the Study of Ancient Material Religion, and the Institute of Classical Studies (University of London).

Dr Stuart McKie, Adam Parker and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham discuss approaches to ancient magic in this video recording of ‘Reassembling Ancient Religion’ Seminar 5.

Professor Robin Osborne, Professor Graham Harvey and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham discuss the nature of divinity in this video recording of ‘Reassembling Ancient Religion’ Seminar 4.

Tulsi Parikh, Professor Phil Perkins and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham discuss the significance of bodies in ancient religion in this video recording of ‘Reassembling Ancient Religion’ Seminar 3.

Dr Eva Mol, Dr Eleanor Betts and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham discuss objects (and theories about objects) in this video recording of ‘Reassembling Ancient Religion’ Seminar 2.

Dr Claudia Moser, Dr Jessica Hughes and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham discuss concepts of religious place in this video recording of ‘Reassembling Ancient Religion’ Seminar 1.

A video presentation by Dr Philip Kiernan, entitled ‘The Gods at Home: Cult Images in Context in the Roman Empire’.

A video presentation by Professor Greg Woolf, entitled ‘Cursing as Transferable Technology: Provincial Appropriations of a Mediterranean Ritual’.

A collection of short audios recorded with Centre members, our seminar speakers and other collaborators. Follow the link to Soundcloud to browse the playlist and find out more.

A series of short videos about ancient Greek and Roman festivals, filmed during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, as part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) virtual festival, FASSFEST!.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Theodora Jim (‘Divine Saving and ‘Votive’ Religion in Ancient Greece’) on 21st November 2019. Page includes images, bibliography and extra audio tracks.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Anna Perdibon (‘Trees and Tree Persons in Ancient Mesopotamia’) on 16th October 2019. Page includes images, bibliography and extra audio tracks.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Sean Leatherbury ("Materializing the Community in the Late Antique Syrian Church") on 11th July 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Camilla Norman ("The Ritual Ecology of Archaic South-East Italy") on 13th June 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Professor Michael Scott ("Walls and the Ancient Greek Experience") on 23rd May 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

An audio discussion recorded after the seminar given by Dr Jody Cundy ("Paradoxographic mentalité and the sacred: thinking through (im)material collections in Pausanias' Periegesis Hellados.") on 21st March 2019. Includes images and bibliography.

An audio discussion recorded after the inaugural seminar given by Professor Maureen Carroll ("Mater Matuta and her ‘Sisters’: Exploring Fertility Cults and Associated Votives in Early Roman Religion") on 14th February 2019. Includes images and bibliography.