An inquiry into the antient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy : with reasons for believing the same to have been known from remote antiquity in China, and progressively improved into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European chess ; also, two dissertations, I. On the Athenian Skirophoria, II. On the Mystical meaning of the bough and umbrella, in the Skiran rites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, James, 1773-1831.

Contributor:

Tresham, Henry, 1749?-1814.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chess--History.

Chess.

History.

Greece--Religion.

Greece.

Religion.

Athens (Greece)--Religious life and customs.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

xvi, 169 pages, iv leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm

Other Title:

Inquiry into the ancient Greek game, supposed to have been invented by Palamedes, antecedent to the siege of Troy

Place of Publication:

London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co... for T. Becket ..., 1801.

Notes:

Published anonymously. By James Christie. Cf. Dict. nat. biog.

Three of the illustrations are by Henry Tresham. Cf. Pref.

Special illustrated title pages for parts of the main work read: [p. 1] Of the antient games of skill. Of the [petteía, triódion], and ludus latrunculorum; [p. 27] Of the mixed games of chance and skill. Of the alveus and [plinthíon]; [p. 53] Of the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European Chess. Of the [petteía], as known among the Chinese.

"Appendix" contains: Of the Scythian rites (p. 89-95); A dissertation upon the Athenian Skirophoria ... (p. [97]-122); A second dissertation upon the mystical signification of the bough and the umbrella ... (p. [123]-169, including "Postscript": Of the religion of the Pelasgi)

Local Notes:

Imperfect: first illustrated title-page wanting.

OCLC:

8784858