A Few Misidentified Associations: Cultic and Foreign Groups

Presentation by Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saxo Institute

Detecting ancient Gree associations

Most of the names of ancient Greek associations were immediately intelligible for Greek readers, though they of course do not always tell a straightforward story about the nature of a given group. A minority of associations in the Copenhagen Associations Project’s Inventory (CAPI) appear to resist any such easy analysis: the names of these groups employ unknown words, sometimes non-Greek words.

New insights into cultic and foreign groups

In his presentation Jan-Mathieu Carbon will briefly look at some of these cases, in order to cast some fresh light on them and to reveal misleading interpretations. This will serve as a sort of introduction for a larger study of a cultic group associated with foreign cults, which is now revealed, inter alia, in one of the longest ritual regulations preserved in ancient Greek.

The seminar is organized by The Copenhagen Associations Project, Saxo Institute as part of the 2015 Fall series Ancient History Seminars at the Saxo Institute.

All interested are welcome.