Dr Maria Mili

  • Lecturer in Ancient History and Culture (Classics)

telephone: 0141 330 4157
email: Maria.Mili@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 513, 65 Oakfield Avenue, G12 8LP

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576

Research interests

My research focusses on Ancient Greek religion and regional Greek histories. I am particularly interested in the interaction of Greeks’ religious beliefs and practices with other aspects of their lives, such as political and social organization, the production and consumption of material culture and the development of rational enquiry. 

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2021 | 2019 | 2015 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011
Number of items: 23.

2024

Haysom, Matthew, Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 and Wallensten, Jenny (Eds.) (2024) The Stuff of the Gods. The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece. Series: Acta instituti atheniensis regni sueciae. Swedish Institute at Athens and Rome: Stockholm. ISBN 9789179160685

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2024) Why did the Greek gods need objects? In: Haysom, Matthew, Mili, Maria and Wallensten, Jenny (eds.) The Stuff of the Gods. The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece. Series: Acta instituti atheniensis regni sueciae. Swedish Institute at Athens and Rome: Stockholm, pp. 25-34. ISBN 9789179160685 (doi: 10.30549/actaath-4-59-02)

2023

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2023) Agency and naming the gods in dedications from central Greece: case Studies from Boiotia and Thessaly. In: Gallopin, T. and Lebreton, S. (eds.) Divine Names and Agency in Ancient Greek and West Semitic Texts. Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Peeters: Louvain. (Accepted for Publication)

2021

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2021) Robert S. Wagman, The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 6, pp. 413-418. [Book Review]

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2021) Croesus' lost shield and other marvellous objects. Kernos, 34, pp. 55-67. (doi: 10.4000/kernos.3843)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 and Wallensten, Jenny (2021) Dedications from the dead: the strange case of Hermes Chthonios. In: Mackil, Emily and Papazarkadas, Nikolaos (eds.) reek Epigraphy and Religion. Papers in Memory of Sara.B Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Series: Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 16. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 227-247. ISBN 9789004442535 (doi: 10.1163/9789004442542_013)

2019

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2019) Apista ta ton Thettalon. The dubious Thessalian state. In: Beck, Hans, Buraselis, Kostas and McAuley, Alex (eds.) Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism. Series: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (61). Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. ISBN 9783515122177

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2019) Dedicatory dialogues in North-central Greece: Pherai and Philia in broader context. In: Lemos, I. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.) Beyond the Polis. Ritual Practices and the Construction of Social Identity in Early Greece. Editions de Boccard: Paris. ISBN 9782960202922

2015

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2015) Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Series: Oxford classical monographs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198718017 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718017.001.0001)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2015) Review of Irene Polinskaya, A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina 800-400 BC (Religions in the Ancient Greek World, 178), Leiden, Brill 2013, xxviii + 690 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-23404-8. Opuscula, 2015(8), pp. 191-192. [Book Review]

2013

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2013) Graninger (D.) Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 1). Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. x + 210. €93/$127. 9789004207103. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 245-246. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426913000827)[Book Review]

2012

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Achilles. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17003)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Chthonic deities, Greece and Rome. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17092)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Diasia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17119)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Furies. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17172)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Hekate. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17187)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Hestia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17198)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Meilichios, theoi meilichioi. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17267)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Orgia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17311)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Pythian games. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17481)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Thetis. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17454)

2011

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2011) The Thessalian Ainians or the Ainians of Thessaly? Dedications and games of identity in Roman Thessaly. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 176, pp. 169-176.

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2011) Apollo Kerdoos: a conniving Apollo in Thessaly? In: Haysom, Matthew and Wallensten, Jenny (eds.) Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece: Papers Presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17-19 April 2008. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen (8). Svenska Institutet i Athen: Stockholm, pp. 41-55. ISBN 9789179160593

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Number of items: 23.

Articles

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2021) Croesus' lost shield and other marvellous objects. Kernos, 34, pp. 55-67. (doi: 10.4000/kernos.3843)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2011) The Thessalian Ainians or the Ainians of Thessaly? Dedications and games of identity in Roman Thessaly. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 176, pp. 169-176.

Books

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2015) Religion and Society in Ancient Thessaly. Series: Oxford classical monographs. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198718017 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718017.001.0001)

Book Sections

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2024) Why did the Greek gods need objects? In: Haysom, Matthew, Mili, Maria and Wallensten, Jenny (eds.) The Stuff of the Gods. The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece. Series: Acta instituti atheniensis regni sueciae. Swedish Institute at Athens and Rome: Stockholm, pp. 25-34. ISBN 9789179160685 (doi: 10.30549/actaath-4-59-02)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2023) Agency and naming the gods in dedications from central Greece: case Studies from Boiotia and Thessaly. In: Gallopin, T. and Lebreton, S. (eds.) Divine Names and Agency in Ancient Greek and West Semitic Texts. Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Peeters: Louvain. (Accepted for Publication)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 and Wallensten, Jenny (2021) Dedications from the dead: the strange case of Hermes Chthonios. In: Mackil, Emily and Papazarkadas, Nikolaos (eds.) reek Epigraphy and Religion. Papers in Memory of Sara.B Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Series: Brill studies in Greek and Roman epigraphy, 16. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 227-247. ISBN 9789004442535 (doi: 10.1163/9789004442542_013)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2019) Apista ta ton Thettalon. The dubious Thessalian state. In: Beck, Hans, Buraselis, Kostas and McAuley, Alex (eds.) Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism. Series: Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien (61). Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart. ISBN 9783515122177

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2019) Dedicatory dialogues in North-central Greece: Pherai and Philia in broader context. In: Lemos, I. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.) Beyond the Polis. Ritual Practices and the Construction of Social Identity in Early Greece. Editions de Boccard: Paris. ISBN 9782960202922

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Achilles. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17003)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Chthonic deities, Greece and Rome. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17092)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Diasia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17119)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Furies. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17172)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Hekate. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17187)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Hestia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17198)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Meilichios, theoi meilichioi. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17267)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Orgia. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17311)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Pythian games. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17481)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2012) Thetis. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781444338386 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah17454)

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2011) Apollo Kerdoos: a conniving Apollo in Thessaly? In: Haysom, Matthew and Wallensten, Jenny (eds.) Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece: Papers Presented at a Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 17-19 April 2008. Series: Skrifter utgivna av Svenska institutet i Athen (8). Svenska Institutet i Athen: Stockholm, pp. 41-55. ISBN 9789179160593

Book Reviews

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2021) Robert S. Wagman, The Cave of the Nymphs at Pharsalus. Studies on a Thessalian Country Shrine. Journal of Greek Archaeology, 6, pp. 413-418. [Book Review]

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2015) Review of Irene Polinskaya, A Local History of Greek Polytheism: Gods, People and the Land of Aigina 800-400 BC (Religions in the Ancient Greek World, 178), Leiden, Brill 2013, xxviii + 690 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-23404-8. Opuscula, 2015(8), pp. 191-192. [Book Review]

Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 (2013) Graninger (D.) Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 1). Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. x + 210. €93/$127. 9789004207103. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 245-246. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426913000827)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Haysom, Matthew, Mili, Maria ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3065-0576 and Wallensten, Jenny (Eds.) (2024) The Stuff of the Gods. The Material Aspects of Religion in Ancient Greece. Series: Acta instituti atheniensis regni sueciae. Swedish Institute at Athens and Rome: Stockholm. ISBN 9789179160685

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Grants

2024 Student Staff Partnership Scheme Award, University of Glasgow

2020 Early Career Mobility Scheme, University of Glasgow

2018 Research Incentive Grant, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

2007-2009 Swedish Research Council, Postdoctoral scholarship

2006 Turkish and Greek Ministries of Education, Postgraduate scholarship

Supervision

I am happy to supervise any topic on Greek religion, as well as topics on Greek oligarchies, federals states, and regional Greek histories. 

Teaching

Greek Religion

The Material World in Greek Religious Thought and Practice

The Other Greeks: Sparta, Crete, Thessaly

Athenian Democracy: Model or mob rule?

Greek Epigraphy