This page gathers the main publications and outputs arising from the HIEROTOPOI project, as well as a short selection of key works that provide its theoretical and methodological background.
Project Publications
This section lists publications and other research outputs that arise directly from the HIEROTOPOI project.
Articles & chapters
- Forthcoming
Monographs & edited volumes
- Forthcoming
Transfer Knowledge
- Soneira-Martínez, R. (2026). Philosophizing on the Move: Sacred Landscapes as the Backdrop of Ancient Thought. HIEROTOPOI Blog. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20554680
- Soneira-Martínez, R. (2026). Landscape and Lineage: Decoding the Greek Proverb “Born from Oak or Rock”. HIEROTOPOI Blog. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20597673
- Soneira-Martínez, R. (2026). The Topographic Writing of Women’s Lives into the Sacred Landscape of the Argolid”. HIEROTOPOI Blog. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21279294
Selected Bibliography
A selection of key works that inform the theoretical and methodological framework of HIEROTOPOI.
Articles & chapters
- Boutsikas, E. (2019) The Contribution of ‘Total Environment’ Reconstructions in Interpreting Ancient Greek Experience of Ritual Spaces, Open Archaeology, 5(1), 540-552.
- Cardete, M. C. (2018). Memoria y paisaje en la Grecia Antigua: las ‘tradiciones reinventadas’ en Pausanias. ὅρμος-Ricerche di Storia Antica, 10, 444–463.
- Cardete del Olmo, M. C. (2022). Landscape and religious monumentalisation in ancient Greece: The sanctuary of Athena Alea in Tegea. Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 40(2), 405–427.
- Devereux, P. (2013). Dreamscapes: Topography, mind, and the power of simulacra in ancient and traditional societies. The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 32(1), 51–63.
- Dunn, M. (2017). Rethinking agency after the relational turn. The Journal of Religion, 97(3), 345–359.
- Eidinow, E. (2023a). I-Thou-Nymph: A relational approach to ancient Greek religious devotion. Religion, 53(1), 24–42.
- Eidinow, E. (2023b). The problem of relating to the gods. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 65(2), 187–198.
- Graham, E.-J. (2025) Material and Experiential Religion, The Classical Review, 1-11.
- Horster, M. (2010) Religious Landscape and Sacred Ground: Relationships between Space and Cult in the Greek World. Revue de l’histoire des religions, 227(4), 435-458.
- Krech, V. (2020). Relational religion: Manifesto for a synthesis in the study of religion. Religion, 50(1), 97–105.
- Lisón Tolosana, C. (2012). Rito, funciones y significado. Música Oral del Sur, 9, 22–28.
- Mackowiak, K. (2016). L’autochtonie, la cité et les origines humaines: d’un discours politique à un discours cosmologique. Mètis, 14, 135–157.
- Pfaff, C. A. (2013) Artemis and a Hero at the Argive Heraion, Hesperia, 82(2), pp. 277-299.
- Räuchle, V. (2015). The myth of mothers as others. Motherhood and autochthony on the Athenian Akropolis. Cahiers Mondes Anciens, 6, 1–24
- Rieger, A.-K. (2020). Do ut des – the relation of material history and archaeology of religion to the study of religions. Journal of Religious History, 46(4), 726–758.
- Roubekas, N. P. (2024) Religious Studies and Greek and Roman Religions: A Work‐in‐Progress, Religious Studies Review, 50(2), 285-289.
- Rüpke, J. (2020a). Establishing self-world relations in socio-religious practices: Looking at Roman religious communication. Arys, 18, 19–50.
- Santos-Granero, F. (1998). Writing history into the landscape: Space, myth, and ritual in contemporary Amazonia. American Ethnologist, 25(2), 128–148.
- Sebillotte Cuchet, V. (2005). La terre-mère: une lecture par le genre et la rhétorique patriotique. Kernos, 18, 203–218.
- Semple, E. C. (1927). The templed promontories of the ancient Mediterranean. Geographical Review, 17, 352–386.
- Susmann, N. M. (2024) Seeing Sacred for Centuries: Digitally Modeling Greek Worshipers’ Visualscapes at the Argive Heraion Sanctuary, Open Archaeology, 10(1).
- Wiznura, A., & Williamson, C. (2020). Mountains of memory: Triangulating landscape, cult and regional identity through Zeus. Pharos, 24, 77–112.
Monographs & edited volumes
- Assmann, J. (1998). Moses the Egyptian: the memory of Egypt in Western monotheism. Harvard University Press.
- Baumbach, J. D. (2004) The Significance of Votive Offerings in Selected Hera Sanctuaries in the Peloponnese, Ionia and Western Greece. BAR.
- Benda-Beckmann, F. von, Benda-Beckmann, K. von, Ramstedt, M., & Turner, B. (2013). Religion in disputes: Pervasiveness of religious normativity in disputing processes. Palgrave MacMillan.
- Bommas, M., Harrisson, J., Roy, P., & Theodorakopolous, E. (2014). Memory and urban religion in the ancient world. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Bonnet, C., Belayche, N., & Albert-Llorca, M. (2017). Puissances divines à l’épreuve du comparatisme: Constructions, variations et réseaux relationnels. Brepols.
- Boutsikas, E. (2020) The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience: Sacred Space, Memory, and Cognition. Cambridge University Press.
- Brisson, L. (1997). Le sexe incertain. Androgynie et hermaphrodisme dans l’Antiquité greco-romaine. Les Belles Lettres
- Carter, P. (1988). The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History. Alfred A. Knopf.
- Chamel, J., & Dansac, Y. (Eds.). (2023). Relating with more-than-humans. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
- Chaniotis, A. (2011). The Ithyphallic Hymn for Demetrios Poliorketes and Hellenistic Religious Mentality. In Panagiotis P. Iossif et al. (eds.), More Than Men, Less Than Gods, 157–195. Peeters.
- Cole, S. G. (2004). Landscapes, gender, and ritual space: The ancient Greek experience. University of California Press.
- Cordovana, O. D. (2024). Environmental Thought in the Graeco-Roman World. De Gruyter.
- Cordovana, O. D., & Chiai, G. F. (eds.) (2017) Pollution and the Environment in Ancient Life and Thought. Franz Steiner Verlag.
- Cristilli, A., Gonfloni, A., & Stok, F. (Eds.). (2020). Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 1. BAR Publishing.
- Cristilli, A., Luca, F. de, Luca, G. de, & Gonfloni, A. (Eds.). (2022). Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 2. BAR Publishing.
- Cristilli, A., Luca, G. de, Gonfloni, A., Capra, E. S., & Pontuali, M. (Eds.). (2024). Experiencing the Landscape in Antiquity 3. BAR Publishing.
- Daraki, M. (2012). Dionysos et la déesse Terre. Flammarion.
- De Polignac, F. (1995). Cults, Territory, and the Origins of the Greek City-State (L. F. Shulman, Trans.). University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1984)
- Feld, S. (2005). Places sensed, senses placed: toward a sensuous epistemology of environments. In D. Howes (ed.), Empire of the Senses. The Sensual Culture Reader (pp. 179-191). Berg.
- Forbes, H. (2007). Meaning and Identity in a Greek landscape: An Archaeological Ethnography. Cambridge University Press.
- Fuchs, M., Linkenbach, A., Mulsow, M., Otto, B.-C., Parson, R. B., & Rüpke, J. (Eds.). (2019). Religious Individualisation. De Gruyter.
- Giustolisi, V. (1979). Topografia, storia e archeologia di Monte Pellegrino. Centro di documentazione e ricerca per la Sicilia Antica “Paolo Orsi”.
- Golosetti, R. (2016). Archéologie d’un paysage religieux: Sanctuaires et cultes du Sud-Est de la Gaule (Ve s. av. J.-C.–IVe s. ap. J.-C.). Osanna Edizioni.
- Hamilakis, Y. (2011). Archaeologies of the senses. In T. Insoll (ed.), Oxford handbook of archaeology of ritual and religion (pp. 208-225). Oxford University Press.
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- Ingold, T. (2000). The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill. Routledge.
- Katsaru-Tzebekelē, S. J. and Nagel, A. (eds.) (2021) Cave and worship in Ancient Greece. New approaches to landscape and ritual. Routledge.
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- Marantou, E. (2024). Exploring the Sacred Landscape of The Ancient Peloponnese: Cults and Sacred Places. Archaeopress Publishing Limited.
- Mari, M. (2016). “A ‘Lawless Piety’ in an Age of Transition. Demetrius the Besieger and the Political Uses of Greek Religion.” In Cinzia Bearzot and Franca Landucci (eds.), Alexander’s Legacy, 157–180. “L’Erma” di Bretschneider.
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- Papantoniou, G., Morris, C. & Vionis, A. (eds.) (2019) Unlocking sacred landscapes: spatial analysis of ritual and cult in the Mediterranean. Astrom Editions.
- Ray, R. C. (ed.) (2020) Sacred waters: a cross-cultural compendium of hallowed springs and holy wells. Routledge.
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- Rose, Th. C. (2015). A Historical Commentary on Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius. Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa.
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- Schachter, A. (1992). Policy, cult and the placing of Greek sanctuaries. In A. Schachter & J. Bingen (Eds.), Le sanctuaire grec: Huit exposés suivis de discussions (pp. 1–64). Fondation Hardt.
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