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Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000 / edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Games and festivals in classical antiquity (2000 : Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Series:
- BAR international series ; 1220.
- BAR international series ; 1220
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Games--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Games.
- Games--Rome--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Festivals--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Festivals.
- Festivals--Rome--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Athletics--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Athletics.
- Athletics--Rome--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Sports--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Sports.
- Sports--Rome--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Recreation--Greece--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Recreation.
- Recreation--Rome--History--To 1500--Congresses.
- Olympic games (Ancient)--Congresses.
- Olympic games (Ancient).
- History.
- Greece.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 153 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Archaeopress, [2004]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1841715808
- OCLC:
- 55013776
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