Mountains of Greece
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Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
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बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
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An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
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February 5, 2026 at 11:34 AM
बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head”
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
@tibetcurator.bsky.social @ruthgamble.bsky.social
An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv
Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s.
@tibetcurator.bsky.social @ruthgamble.bsky.social
I was very lucky to have the chance to go up to the Pyre of Herakles site on Mount Oiti in north-west Greece back in October—we were in thick mist, but it’s still a very evocative site (link to post below!)
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Oiti
Enter into a landscape of suffering on Mount Oiti, ancient bandit country and scene of the agonies of Herakles.
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January 29, 2026 at 12:43 PM
I was very lucky to have the chance to go up to the Pyre of Herakles site on Mount Oiti in north-west Greece back in October—we were in thick mist, but it’s still a very evocative site (link to post below!)
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Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book #Cairngorms
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January 29, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book #Cairngorms
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The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast launched recently. Check out their first episode, "Xenophobic Mountains" with Alexandra Cotofana: 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/17/x...
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January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
The Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures podcast launched recently. Check out their first episode, "Xenophobic Mountains" with Alexandra Cotofana: 🔗 msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/12/17/x...
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Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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January 15, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Join us for our first podcast! We talk with the amazing Alexandra Cotofana about landscape sentience in the Romanian Carpathians and the concept of xenophobic mountains.
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I hadn't realised until recently that you can see the summit of Mount Kithairon from the centre of Athens. That must have been all the more the case with a huge column of smoke rising up (if Pausanias is right about sacrifices on the summit).
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Kithairon
Wander up past tortoises and wind turbines to the place of sacrificial fire on the summit of Mount Kithairon.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I hadn't realised until recently that you can see the summit of Mount Kithairon from the centre of Athens. That must have been all the more the case with a huge column of smoke rising up (if Pausanias is right about sacrifices on the summit).
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I think the archaeological finds from the Agios Antonios summit of Mount Olympus are not very well known...--evidence of an ash altar and cult of Zeus. Thanks to Cynthia Marti for this post with all the details and a great hiking route!
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Olympus (Agios Antonios)
Visit the Agios Antonios peak, place of sacrifice and site of the most important archaeological finds on Olympus
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November 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I think the archaeological finds from the Agios Antonios summit of Mount Olympus are not very well known...--evidence of an ash altar and cult of Zeus. Thanks to Cynthia Marti for this post with all the details and a great hiking route!
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One of the amazing things about visiting the Cave of Pan on Parnitha is knowing that you are in the footsteps of others: late antique worshippers of Pan and nineteenth-century travellers who have left accounts of their visits...
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Parnitha (Cave of Pan)
Clamber down to the Cave of Pan on western Parnitha, in the footsteps of the late antique pilgrim Nikagoras.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
One of the amazing things about visiting the Cave of Pan on Parnitha is knowing that you are in the footsteps of others: late antique worshippers of Pan and nineteenth-century travellers who have left accounts of their visits...
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Interesting to walk in west Parnitha (ancient Mount Parnes, north of Athens) a couple of weeks ago. It's very overgrown after the 2023 fires. Walking on these paths and helping to keep them open is an act of heritage preservation in itself...
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Parnitha (Koromilia)
Fight your way through the undergrowth up to the Koromilia peak of Parnitha, and meet one of Alciphron’s parasites.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Interesting to walk in west Parnitha (ancient Mount Parnes, north of Athens) a couple of weeks ago. It's very overgrown after the 2023 fires. Walking on these paths and helping to keep them open is an act of heritage preservation in itself...
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New post on Mount Menalo today, including the amazing image of Pan in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis!:
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Menalo
Head up into the secluded forests of Menalo from Stemnitsa for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
New post on Mount Menalo today, including the amazing image of Pan in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis!:
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Thanks to Maria Christodoulou for this week's guest post. Amazing to see the hellebore still growing in the same place several millennia later!
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Helikon (Paliovouna)
Wind your way up through the hellebore plants in the place where they were harvested in antiquity, on the western peak of Mount Helikon.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thanks to Maria Christodoulou for this week's guest post. Amazing to see the hellebore still growing in the same place several millennia later!
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🔔 Event reminder!
🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
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🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
🔔 Event reminder!
🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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🗻 Conference | Mountains of Greece: Heritage narratives from the past for a sustainable future
📆 22-24 October 2025
❗ fully booked in-person
🌐 online registration still available: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Paperback version just out!
October 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Paperback version just out!
Exciting to be able to advertise the newly opened Divine Summits exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews, curated by St A. students Carla Longo and Victoria Jackson. You can explore the exhibition website if you can't make it in person!
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Divine Summits exhibition
Divine Summits: The Cultural Lives of Mediterranean Mountains’ at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews (30 September – 16 November 2025).
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October 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Exciting to be able to advertise the newly opened Divine Summits exhibition at the Wardlaw Museum in St Andrews, curated by St A. students Carla Longo and Victoria Jackson. You can explore the exhibition website if you can't make it in person!
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New post on Mytikas, highest summit of Olympus!
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Olympus (Mytikas)
Scramble up over the rocks to Mytikas, highest summit in Greece, and see where Hephaistos fell to earth.
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October 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
New post on Mytikas, highest summit of Olympus!
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Thanks to Callisto Lodwick for today's post on the Corycian Cave in the foothills of Parnassos.
It's a beautiful hike up from Delphi. It takes you up to an ancient place of worship that's very different from the sanctuary of Apollo down below!
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It's a beautiful hike up from Delphi. It takes you up to an ancient place of worship that's very different from the sanctuary of Apollo down below!
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Parnassos (Corycian Cave)
Take the path that Pausanias walked on from Delphi up to the Corycian Cave, place of worship and refuge.
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September 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thanks to Callisto Lodwick for today's post on the Corycian Cave in the foothills of Parnassos.
It's a beautiful hike up from Delphi. It takes you up to an ancient place of worship that's very different from the sanctuary of Apollo down below!
mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/27/p...
It's a beautiful hike up from Delphi. It takes you up to an ancient place of worship that's very different from the sanctuary of Apollo down below!
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New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!
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Artemisio
Scramble up into the territory of Artemis on Mount Artemisio.
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September 20, 2025 at 7:37 AM
New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!
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Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!
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Conference programme
Mountains of Greece: Heritage Narratives from the Past for a Sustainable Future, Athens, 22-24 October 2025
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September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025!
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Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
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September 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
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I was very lucky to climb Mount Parthenion in the Peloponnese last week. Here's what I discovered!
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Parthenion
Encounter abandoned babies and see the place where Helen met Paris on Mount Parthenion.
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September 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I was very lucky to climb Mount Parthenion in the Peloponnese last week. Here's what I discovered!
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