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Mountains of Greece

@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social

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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 .. more

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 2d

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Find the sanctuary of Zeus Ombrios high up on Mount Hymettos, and discover some alphabetic dedications.

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 3d

New podcast! We talk to historian of science
@lachlanfleetwood.bsky.social about early 19th C. imperial science in the #Himalaya & the emergence of a 'vertically oriented view of the world' where altitude comes to define mountains #HistSci #EnvHist
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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 10d

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Parnassos (Liakoura)

Climb up to the Liakoura summit to encounter humans born from rocks, and an ancient mountain rescue.

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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 10d

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 17d

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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Enter into a landscape of suffering on Mount Oiti, ancient bandit country and scene of the agonies of Herakles.

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 17d

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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St Andrews Classics @staclassics.bsky.social · 25d

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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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · Jan 15

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Stroll through the meadows of Mount Kallidromos, in the footsteps of the Persians at the Battle of Thermopylae.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Dec 6

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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Wander up past tortoises and wind turbines to the place of sacrificial fire on the summit of Mount Kithairon.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 29

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 22

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 15

Updated Penteli post here, now with photos!

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Get up close to the ancient quarries of Mount Penteli, and to Pausanias’ vision of Greece as a network of marble.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 15

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 8

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Get up close to the ancient quarries of Mount Penteli, and to Pausanias’ vision of Greece as a network of marble.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Nov 1

New post: a sunset route on Mount Hymettos!

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Experience the light on Mount Hymettos, and in Ovid’s version of the story of Procris and Cepahalus.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Oct 25

New post on Mount Menalo today, including the amazing image of Pan in Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis!:

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Head up into the secluded forests of Menalo from Stemnitsa for a glimpse of the territory of Pan and Artemis.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Oct 18

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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British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social · Oct 15

🔔 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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Oct 11

Paperback version just out!

Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Oct 11

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Oct 4

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Sep 27

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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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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Sep 20

New post on Mount Artemision--specially recommended for Pausanias fans!

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Scramble up into the territory of Artemis on Mount Artemisio.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Sep 13

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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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Sep 6

I was very lucky to climb Mount Parthenion in the Peloponnese last week. Here's what I discovered!

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Encounter abandoned babies and see the place where Helen met Paris on Mount Parthenion.

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · Sep 1

Such a pleasure recording this podcast for Sense of Place about Lifelines, home and the more-than-human world!
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A map of the Prespa lakes region shared by Greece, Albania and North Macedonia that appear on the endpapers of my book Lifelines.

Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Aug 30

Thanks to Callisto Lodwick for today's guest post exploring some of the stories associated with Mount Lykaion!

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Make your way up Mount Lykaion to see the best excavated summit site in Greece, and the venue for some bloodthirsty stories.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks to Christina Roald for today's guest post on the archaeological heritage of Mount Arachnaion, and to the St Andrews Research Internship Scheme for funding Christina's work on the project!

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Dig into the archaeological heritage of the summit site on Mount Arachnaio, under the wind turbines.

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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · Aug 16

Thanks to Callisto Lodwick for today’s fantastic guest post on Mount Helikon! This is the first in a series of posts by students working on the project with funding from the St Andrews Research Internship Scheme.

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Helikon (Zagaras)

Trek up to the Hippocrene spring on Zagaras, the eastern summit of Mount Helikon, and take a sip for inspiration.

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