Project description
Coastal frontiers and sacred spaces in ancient Greece
Across human history, coastal and border regions have served as crucial and often contested gateways where movement, exchange and control intersect, shaping how communities define access, identity and power. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SHORETHING project will investigate ancient Greek coastal sanctuaries in the southern Peloponnese to understand how access, movement and border dynamics shaped religious and political life. By integrating digital mapping with material and historical evidence, it will explore how these sacred sites functioned within wider systems of territory, identity and connectivity. The project will also produce an interactive GIS platform and scholarly outputs to share findings on the lived experience of coastal and border communities in antiquity.
Objective
Coastlines were a type of frontier by which ancient Greek territories were accessed, and sanctuaries at harbors or landing places may have served similar functions for those entering or passing through a region as their counterparts along inland borders. Research on the permeability of borders and problems of access has resonance today, especially the importance of the coast for refugees or disputes over maritime boundaries. Yet the presumed correlation between the location of border sanctuaries and their functions has largely been approached through top-down political models of city-state (polis) development or tangential to studies on particular deities or regions, while coastal sanctuaries have largely been studied within the themes of maritime religion and long-distance trade networks. SHORETHING combines these two categories of sacred space and adopts a holistic, long-duree approach to investigate coastal sanctuaries across the southern Peloponnese. Datasets will be developed for the study area integrating archaeological material, textual sources, and geospatial information on movement and access, including ancient roads and harbor installations, and traditional footpaths. The researcher will be trained in geomatics technologies and digital heritage approaches which will increase her expertise as an archaeologist of Greek religion and in digital humanities. Results of the study will illuminate relationships between cult practices, the landscape, and political and ethnic organization, and provide insight into the lived experience in coastal and border locations. Project dissemination and outreach will include the publication of data, conferences and workshops to spark dialogue about coastal communities, religious practices, and border issues, and an interactive GIS-based website that promotes the study of this topic and introduces users to some of the more liminal landscapes of the Peloponnese and the perspectives of local residents living alongside them.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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