The material dynamics of festivals in the Graeco-Roman East / edited by Zahra Newby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newby, Zahra, editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in ancient documents.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Greece--History.

Festivals.

Festivals--Rome--History.

Material culture--Greece--History.

Material culture.

Material culture--Rome--History.

Greece--Antiquities.

Greece.

Rome--Antiquities.

Rome.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture - inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art - works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Preface

Contents

List of Figures

Appendix of Token Types in Chapter 5

Abbreviations

Contributors

1. Introduction: The Material Worlds of Ancient Festivals

1.1. The dynamics of material culture in festivals of the Greek East

1.2. The material frameworks for the experience of festivals: continuity and change

1.3. Cities, emperors, and the elite: the social frameworks of civic festivals

1.4. Outline of the volume

2. Establishing a Channel of Communication: Roman Emperors and the Self-Presentation of Greek Athletes in the Roman East

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The emperor at the games. Direct (and indirect) presence of emperors at Greek festivals

2.3. The emperor and the games. Imperial intervention in the agonistic circuit

2.4. Athletes and their victories. The agency of material culture in imperial athletics

2.5. Concluding remarks

3. Agonistic Legislation in Hadrian's Time

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The letters at Alexandria Troas and the role of the synod

3.3. Hadrian's impact on the festival calendar

3.4. Conclusion

4. Greek Festival Culture and 'Political' Games at Nikaia in Bithynia

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Nikaia and Nikomedia

4.3. Games for the empire

4.4. The Severan Philadelpheia

4.5. Concluding remarks

5. Tokens from Roman Imperial Athens: The Power of Cultural Memory

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Tokens from Ancient Athens and their historiography

5.3. The tokens from the Stoa of Attalos

5.4. Tokens in the festivals of Roman Athens

5.5. Tokens and their meaning in the contexts of festivals

5.6. Tokens and elite self-representation

5.7. Athenian heritage, ephebes, and the gerousia

5.8. Tokens' distribution, value, and euergetism.

5.9. Conclusion: token imagery or 'imagining Athens' in the third century ad

6. Festivals and the Performance of Community and Status in the Theatres at Hierapolis and Perge

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Defining festival culture at Hierapolis

6.3. Civic roles in festivals at Perge

6.4. Conclusions

7. An Epigraphic Stage: Inscriptions and the Moulding of Festival Space at Aphrodisias

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Modelling benefaction

7.3. Modelling victory

7.4. Civic history on display

7.5. Inscribing the cavea

7.6. The backstage area

7.7. An epigraphic stage

8. The Artists of Dionysos and the Festivals of Boiotia

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The Artists of Dionysos in the Hellenistic period in Boiotia

8.3. The Artists of Dionysos in Roman Boiotia

8.4. Conclusion

9. Sacred Circles: Enclosed Sanctuaries and Their Festival Communities in the Hellenistic World

9.1. Introduction

9.2. The sacred circle-ritual in enclosed space

9.3. When the circle is a square-festival culture and peristyle shrines

9.4. Three case studies

9.5. Conclusions: worlds within worlds

10. The Materiality of Light in Religious Celebrations and Rituals in the Roman East

10.1. Introduction: shedding light on nocturnal celebrations

10.2. The emotional impact of nocturnal rituals

10.3. The materiality of artificial light: lamps, lamp-hangers, and torch-bearing statues

10.4. Oriental nights in Larisa

10.5. Fire in the Cave of Zeus

10.6. Torches and cranes in Abonou Teichos

10.7. Statues that burn and statues in flames: the Daidala of Boiotia

10.8. Conclusions

11. Conclusions and Future Directions

11.1. The material expression of social networks, collaborations and hierarchies

11.2. Forging memories and identities through material culture.

11.3. Static and portable monuments: capturing the ephemeral and creating communities

11.4. Material framings of the ritual experience

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Newby, Zahra The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East

ISBN:

0-19-196483-2

0-19-269528-2

0-19-269529-0

OCLC:

1395918644