Research Catalog

Title

The games at Athens : tonathenethenathlon / Jenifer Neils and Stephen V. Tracy.

Author

Neils, Jenifer, 1950-

Publication

Athens : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, c2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Tracy, Stephen V., 1941-

Description

32, [1] p. : ill. (some col.); 22 cm.

Summary

This attractive book presents a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honor of the city's patron goddess, Athena. The highlight of the city's festival calendar, with its musical, athletic, and equestrian contests, tribal events, processions, sacrifices, and other activities, the Greater Panathenaia involved all the residents of Athens--not just adult males but women, children, metics (resident aliens), foreigners, and even slaves. The facilities, administration, program events, prizes, and associated monuments are described.--ASCSA site.

Series Statement

Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture book ; no. 25

Uniform Title

Excavations of the Athenian Agora. Picture book no. 25.

Alternative Title

• Tonathenethenathlon
• Games at Athens

Subject

• Panathenaia
• Athletics in art
• Athletes > Greece > Athens > History
• Athletics > Greece > Athens > History
• Art, Greek > Themes, motives
• Athens (Greece) > Antiquities
• Greece > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 33).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0876616414

OCLC

• 53027452
• SCSB-10127085

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library