This interdisciplinary project focuses on visual and written representations of maritime risks and strategies for managing them in antiquity and the early modern period. Funded by the TRANSMARE- Institute, the project aims to trace the interplay between perceptions and strategies for risk management across different historical eras, highlighting continuities and changes. In contrast to previous research, which focused primarily on empirically verifiable, supposedly objective risks such as storms, this project also examines subjectively imagined risks rooted in contemporary cultural and religious conceptions. Accordingly, the project’s focus extends beyond the study of nautical or economic risk management, to include cultural strategies aimed at describing, categorizing, and avoiding potential hazards. First results were published in the anthology published in 2025: Dangerous Tides. Perceiving, Imagining, and Managing Maritime Risks in Ancient and Early Modern Worlds.
