The Panathenaic Games

Author : Olga Palagia,Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782979838

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The Panathenaic Games by Olga Palagia,Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi Pdf

The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in general and of individual contests in particular. The role of royal and other patrons in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the form and meaning of victory dedications and other monuments generated by the games were also examined, making this a truly interdisciplinary study into this fascinating event. Two papers are in Greek. "This handsomely-illustrated conference volume is the first to concentrate exclusively on the games." Jackson, Journal of Hellenic Studies "A handsome, well-illustrated, large-format volume of the proceeding, mostly in English, of a conference held in Athens in 2004 in connection with the modern Olympics." - Tsetskhladze, Ancient West & East

Author : Olga Palagia,Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782979852

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The Panathenaic Games by Olga Palagia,Alkestis Spetsieri-Choremi Pdf

The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in general and of individual contests in particular. The role of royal and other patrons in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the form and meaning of victory dedications and other monuments generated by the games were also examined, making this a truly interdisciplinary study into this fascinating event. Two papers are in Greek. "This handsomely-illustrated conference volume is the first to concentrate exclusively on the games." Jackson, Journal of Hellenic Studies "A handsome, well-illustrated, large-format volume of the proceeding, mostly in English, of a conference held in Athens in 2004 in connection with the modern Olympics." - Tsetskhladze, Ancient West & East

Author : Jenifer Neils,Stephen V. Tracy
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0876616414

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Tonathenethenathlon by Jenifer Neils,Stephen V. Tracy Pdf

This "Athenian Agora Picture Book" provides a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held in ancient Athens every four years, in honour of the city's patron goddess Athena.

Author : Julia L. Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108485272

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Serving Athena by Julia L. Shear Pdf

Examines how the Panathenaia ('all Athenian'), the most important festival in ancient Athens, created identities for participants.

Author : Jenifer Neils
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 029915114X

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Worshipping Athena by Jenifer Neils Pdf

Ten papers from 1992 symposia at Dartmouth College and Princeton University are augmented by an original chapter and a translation of a Greek article, to explore the myth and cult of Athena, contests and prizes associated with her worship, and art and politics generated around her. Among the topics are women in the Panathenaic and other festivals, the iconography of shield devices and column-mounted statues on amphoras, and the Panatheniaia in the age of Perikles. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jenifer Neils,Hood Museum of Art
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arts, Greek
ISBN : 0691036128

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Goddess and Polis by Jenifer Neils,Hood Museum of Art Pdf

While the Olympics, because of their modern revival, enjoy the greatest fame today, in ancient Greece other religious festivals were equally elaborate and impressive spectacles. The lavishly illustrated Goddess and Polis is the first work devoted to the Panathenaia, the most significant of these festivals to be held in ancient Athens. Founded in 566 B.C., this complex ritual performed for the goddess Athena vied with other Greek festivals in grandeur and importance and was particularly distinguished by the works of art commissioned in its service. Among these were the painted vases known as Panathenaic amphoras, each of which contained forty liters of olive oil, awarded to athletic and equestrian victors. The contests depicted on these vases are the best extant illustrations of Greek sport. Although women were excluded from the competitions, they had an important role to play in the weaving of the peplos, an elaborate textile that took nine months to produce. The culmination of the festival was a long procession bearing this new robe to the cult statue of the goddess; the procession in turn was the subject of another great work of art, the Parthenon frieze. Combining art, spectacle, and civic consciousness, the Panathenaia contributed to the development of the high classical style of Periklean Athens. This book deals with every aspect of the festival and produces a vivid portrait of the worship of the patron goddess of the city. Essays by eminent classical scholars examine in depth the musical and poetic competitions, the athletic and equestrian contests, the peplos, and the evolving image of Athena as documented in sculpture from the Acropolis. Jenifer Neils, the curator of the exhibition Goddess and Polis, held at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, has contributed an introduction to the Panathenaia, an essay on the prize amphoras, and detailed entries for the seventy objects exhibited.

Author : Stephen G. Miller
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931033

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Arete by Stephen G. Miller Pdf

From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056478764

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Plato's Rhapsody and Homer's Music by Gregory Nagy Pdf

This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of these Homeric performances. Plato's fine ear for language--in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes--picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art.

Author : Stephen Gaylord Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0300115296

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Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen Gaylord Miller Pdf

Presenting a survey of sports in ancient Greece, this work describes ancient sporting events and games. It considers the role of women and amateurs in ancient athletics, and explores the impact of these games on art, literature and politics.

Author : Panos Valavanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Athletes in art
ISBN : 6185209187

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Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece by Panos Valavanis Pdf

Twelve years after the first edition of this book the time has come for an enlarged and improved second edition. This was prompted by the need to update it with the new results of historical and archaeological research on the panhellenic sanctuaries and their games, as well as from the need to replace and supplement the photographic material of the many sites and monuments where excavation and restoration works have provided new insights. In this way readers have in their hands a book that is fully up to date about the Pan-Hellenic games and ancient Greek athletic. Modeled after physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of athletic games took place in Greek antiquity, extending across every area of the Mediterranean in which Greek culture flourished. Of the vast number of games, four attained the status of panhellenic games: the Olympic games, held at Olympia in honor of Zeus; the Pythian games at Delphi, at the festival of Apollo; the Isthmian games, at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia; and the Nemean games, celebrated in the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea. The Panathenaic games, which took place at the festival of the Panathenaia in Athens in honor of Athena, were, at their peak, equal in brilliance to those held at the panhellenic festivals. In these five games, more than anywhere else, the magnificent culture and ideology of Greek antiquity flourished. The spectacle of the games gave rise to a sporting tradition that engages the world to this day. Founded as early as the 8th century BC, the games held at Olympia, however, were the oldest and most important and surpassed all the others in their fame and glory. Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece celebrates the athletes, the games, the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all, the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks over a span of a millennium and a half, from the earliest mentions of athletics in Homer's Iliad and other literary sources, through the Classical age, and into the Hellenistic, Roman and late antique periods. That our modern athletes still compete every four years in such contests as the pentathlon, discus, javelin, boxing, jumping, wrestling and running events, much as their ancient antecedents did centuries before them, is a testament to the longevity of competition, triumph and defeat.

Author : Panos Valavanēs,Panos Valavanis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015059102346

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Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece by Panos Valavanēs,Panos Valavanis Pdf

As religious rituals, rites of passage, and celebrations of the body, athletics were deeply woven into the fabric of ancient Greek life. Modeled after physical exercises and competitions that existed in earlier Near Eastern cultures, hundreds of athletic contests took place throughout the ancient Greek world. In the eighth century B.C., the games held at Olympia began to surpass all others in their fame and glory and gave rise to a sporting tradition that engages and enthralls the world to this day. Published to coincide with the return of the Olympics to Greece in 2004, this thoroughly researched book studies sport in ancient Greece over a span of a millennium and a half-from the earliest mentions of athletics in Homer's Iliad and other literary sources, through the Classical age, and into the Hellenistic, Roman, and late antique periods. With more than five hundred illustrations, the book tours the monumental stadiums, bathhouses, temples, and other structures built to host the athletic events and to house the wealth of art created to pay tribute to the athletes, gods, and heroes of the games.

Author : Zahra Newby
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192868794

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The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East by Zahra Newby Pdf

The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries AD, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. Much of our knowledge of these festivals, and their associated processions, rituals, banquets, and competitions, comes from material culture-- inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. Yet each of these pieces of material evidence was the result of a conscious act, of what to record, and where and how to record it, with varying patterns discernible across different areas, and in different media. This volume draws attention to the choices made in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods, and unpicks the ways in which they encode or forge particular social relationships and power structures, as well as creating senses of community or communication between different groups. These helped to fix ephemeral events into public memory, to present particular views of their significance for the wider community, and to frame the experience of their participants.

Author : David Sansone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119098157

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Ancient Greek Civilization by David Sansone Pdf

The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history and culture of ancient Greece from the Minoan civilization to the age of the Roman Empire. Explores the evolution and development of Greek art, literature, politics, and thought across history, as well as the ways in which these were affected by Greek interaction with other cultures Now includes additional illustrations and maps, updated notes and references throughout, and an expanded discussion of the Hellenistic period Weaves the latest scholarship and archeological excavations into the narrative at an appropriate level for undergraduates

Author : Aristéa Papanicolaou Christensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Stadiums
ISBN : UOM:39015058722631

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The Panathenaic Stadium by Aristéa Papanicolaou Christensen Pdf

Author : Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444339529

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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle Pdf

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers