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Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World
by David J. Phillips and David Pritchard
First launched at the time of the Athens Olympics, Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World has become a classic study in its field. The 15 illustrated chapters of this collection not only explore many aspects of the ancient Olympics and the rich program of competitive festivals in democratic Athens, but also the broader religious, social and political contexts in which sport and festival flourished in ancient Greece. This book shows ...
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Aphrodite's Tortoise: The Veiled Woman of Ancient Greece
by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Greek women routinely wore the veil. That is the unexpected finding of this meticulous study, one with interesting implications for the origins of Western civilisation. The Greeks, popularly (and rightly) credited with the invention of civic openness, are revealed as also part of a more Eastern tradition of seclusion. Llewellyn-Jones' work proceeds from literary and, notably, from iconographic evidence. In sculpture and vase painting it ...
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Sparta: The Body Politic
edited by Anton Powell and Stephen Hodkinson
This is the 7th volume from the International Sparta Seminar, in the series begun in 1989 by Anton Powell with Stephen Hodkinson. The volume is both thematic and eclectic.
Contents:
Elements of the Spartan bestiary in the Archaic and Classical periods (Nicolas Richer); Divination, royalty and insecurity in Classical Sparta (Anton Powell); Sparta and the politics of nudity (Ephraim David); Laconian ...
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Sparta: Comparative Approaches
edited by Stephen Hodkinson
Both in antiquity and in modern scholarship, classical Sparta has typically been viewed as an exceptional society, different in many respects from other Greek city-states. This view has recently come under challenge from 'revisionist' historians, led by Stephen Hodkinson. This is the first book devoted explicitly to this lively historical controversy. Historians from Britain, Europe and the USA present different sides of the argument, using a ...
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Marbleworkers in the Athenian Agora
by Carol L. Lawton
The fifth-century B.C. poet Pindar remarked on the rich sculptural decoration of the Athenian Agora, and, indeed, over 3,500 pieces of various types of sculpture have been uncovered during its excavation. This full-color guide sheds new light on the marble industry in and around the Agora, including rich evidence for the sculptors' workshops, their tools and techniques. It discusses the works of both famous and anonymous artists. 52p, 58 col ...
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Women in the Athenian Agora
by Susan I. Rotroff and Robert D. Lamberton
Using evidence from the Athenian Agora the authors show how objects discovered during excavations provide a vivid picture of women's lives. The book is structured according to the social roles women played-as owners of property, companions (in and outside of marriage), participants in ritual, craftspeople, producers, and consumers. A final section moves from the ancient world to the modern, discussing the role of women as archaeologists in the ...
The Athenian Citizen (Agora Picture Book 4)
by Mabel Lang
The Agora was the civic center of Classical Athens and, through studying materials found there, much can be learnt about the origins of the world's first and possibly most representative democracy. The author discusses many aspects of administration, from the standardization of weights and measures (represented by the standard mold for tiles in the center of the Agora) to the ingenious workings of the Klepsydra, the water clock which regulated a ...
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Competition in the Ancient World
edited by Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the ...
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Athens-Sparta: Contributions to the Research on the History and Archaeology of the Two City-States
edited by Nikolaos Kaltsas
Organized in conjunction with the Onassis Cultural Center's groundbreaking exhibition Athens-Sparta, the International Conference explored the archaeological and historical elements of the ancient relationship and conflict between the rival city-states, and provided insight into the artistic development of the Attic and Laconic cultures. Particular to these proceedings is the inclusion of papers relating to the archaeology of Sparta and ...
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Ancient Greek Athletics
by Stephen G. Miller
Published in the year the modern Olympic Games return to Athens, this book will be a source of information and enjoyment for anyone interested in the history of athletics and the origins of the world's most famous sporting event. 304p (Yale University Press 2004)
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$35.00, Our Price US$14.98
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