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Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000
- Title
- Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000 / edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies.
- Publication
- Oxford, England : Archaeopress, c2004.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 153 p. : ill.; 30 cm.
- Series Statement
- BAR international series ; 1220
- Subjects
- Athletics > Rome > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Games > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Sports > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Sports > Rome > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Athletics > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Recreation > Rome > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Olympic games (Ancient) > Congresses
- Festivals > Rome > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Festivals > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Games > Rome > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Recreation > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Grasping the bull by the horns: Minoan bull sports / Eleanor Loughlin -- Festival? What festival? Reading dance imagery as evidence / Tyler Jo Smith -- Professional foul: persona in Pindar / Gráinne McLaughlin -- Orestes the contender: chariot racing and politics in fifth century Athens and Sophocles' Electra / Eleanor Okell -- From Agônistês to Agônios: Hermes, chaos and conflict in competitive games and festivals / Arlene Allan -- Dionysiac festivals in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Greta Ham -- The perils of Pittalakos: settings of cock fighting and dicing in classical Athens / Nick Fisher -- Civic self-representation in the Hellenistic world: the festival of Artemis Leukophryene / Geoffrey Sumi -- Roman games and Greek origins in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze -- Epic games and real games in Statius' Thebaid 6 and Virgil's Aeneid 5 / Helen Lovatt -- Sport or showbiz? The naumachiae of imperial Rome / Francesca Garello -- Dionysiac scenes on Sagalassian Oinophoroi from Seleuceia Sidera in Pisidia / Ergün Lafli -- Christianising the celebrations of death in late antiquity / Julia Burman -- The Sala dei Cavalli in Palazzo Te: portraits of champions / Elizabeth Tobey.
- Call Number
- JFG 04-546
- ISBN
- 1841715808
- OCLC
- 55013776
- Title
- Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000 / edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies.
- Imprint
- Oxford, England : Archaeopress, c2004.
- Series
- BAR international series ; 1220
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Bell, Sinclair.Davies, Glenys.
- Research Call Number
- JFG 04-546