Person
Affiliated Researcher
- Affiliated Classical archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail jenny.wallenstenklass.luse
I have studied Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University, and hold a PhD and Docent title from this institution.
As a researcher, I study Greek religion and focus especially on communication between gods and men through gift-giving and naming. I have for example investigated the instrumental role of divine epithets, the flexibility of divine character in Greek polytheism and aspects of dedicatory habits. I also look at human personal names humans, especially theophoric.
I am the Director of the Swedish Institute at Athens since 2017. As such I am responsible for the teaching and archaeological work carried out by the Institute and personally run the Swedish part of the investigations in the ancient city of Hermione. I also run studies regarding the so-called Pireus Lion and the publication of the correspondence of renowned professor Martin P. Nilsson. Since 2015, I run a platform for scholarly discussion of Greek religion, the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.
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My profile in Lund University research portalThe Athens Greek Religion seminar, 2015-
Scientific committees
Antike Religion, Österreichische Akademie derr Wissenschaften, associated scholar
Mythos. Rivista di Storia delle Religioni, Member of the Scientific Committee
Uppsala Research Centre for the World in the Viking Age (WiVA), Member of the Scientific Committee
Senior advisor, Comparative Religion, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit
Editorial committees
Opuscula, Annual of the Swedish Institutes in Athens and Rome, Member of the Editorial Committee
Hellenika, Journal of the Friends of the Swedish Institute at Athens, Member of the Editorial Committee
Research projects, direction and participation
Direction, Swedish part of the Greek-Swedish project Hermione: A Model City?, 2018-2023.
Direction, Swedish part of the Greek-Swedish project An Ancient Cityscape and its People. A Study of Ancient Hermione, 2015-2017.
Direction, Digitally Recording the Piraeus Lion, 2021-
Member of research program Efficacité des rites, under the direction of Ioanna Patera, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 2019-2025
Member of research program DIVI, under the direction of Sylvia Estienne de Cazano, Anne-Françoise Jaccottet (Université de Genève) and Stéphanie Wyler (Université de Paris Diderot, AnHiMA), 2019-2023.
Member of research program NEOI. Des hommes nouveaux dieux: de la titulaire hellénistique neos à l’imitatio romaine, under the direction of Anne-Françoise Jaccottet (Université de Genève) and Stéphanie Wyler (Université de Paris Diderot, AnHiMA), 2015-2019.
Affiliated Researcher
- Affiliated Classical archaeology
- Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
Contact information
E-mail jenny.wallenstenklass.luse