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The Games at Athens
by Jenifer Neils, Stephen Tracy
This new Athenian Agora Picture Book is a general introduction to the Greater Panathenaia, the week-long religious and civic festival held at Athens every four years in honor of the city's patron goddess Athena. The highlight of the city's festival calendar, with its musical, athletic, and equestrian contests, tribal events, processions, sacrifices and other activities, the Greater Panathenaia involved all the residents of Athens - not ...
Paperback. Price GB £3.50

Plants and Plant Lore in Ancient Greece
by John Raven
In 1976 John Raven presented four Grey Lectures at Cambridge University which sought to reappraise long-accepted identifications of ancient names for modern plants. These lectures, plus another given in 1971, form the main focus of this book and many of the issues raised within them are discussed further by William Stearn, Nicholas Jardine and Peter Warren, taking account of more research. Also includes an additional two papers by Alice Lindsell, ...
Hardback. Price GB £25.00

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
by David Sansone
`One of the most provocative interpretations of the origins and nature of early and all sport to appear in decades Journal of Sport History. `Sansone traces the vivid details of sports culture back into prehistory... His style mixes speculation, history, common sense, and personal experiences... into a continually provocative argument.' Now available in paperback. 136p with 24 figs. (California UP 1992) Pb
Paperback. Price GB £15.95

Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond
edited by Ann Suter
Oxbow says: Lament, a passionate expression of grief, mourning or sorrow, forms the central theme of this collection of twelve essays. Through this theme, authors explore a range of different aspects of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, ...
Hardback. Price GB £43.00

Vin et santé Grèce ancienne
edited by Jacques Jouanna and Laurence Villard with Daniel Béguin
In ancient Greece wine was offered both to the gods and to guests at a dinner party and it prompted a range of different and often contradictory comments from ancient writers, philosophers, theologians and doctors. These 25 papers, which are taken from a ...
Paperback. Price GB £56.00

Die 'Opferrinne-Zeremonie': Bankettideologie am Grab, Orientalisierung und Formierung einer Adelsgesellschaft
by Erich Kistler
Study of the development of the Athenian aristocracy by means of the analysis of archaic offering cups/channels found in the Hagia Triada area in the Kerameikos, the Athenian cemetery. The author discusses the possible types of ceremony for which the cups ...
Hardback. Price GB £36.00

Reciprocity in Ancient Greece
edited by C Gill, N Postlethwaite and R Seaford
Essays by an international group of experts, examining the principle and practise of voluntary requital in Greek epic, drama, historiography, oratory, religion an ethical philosophy in different phases of Greek history. 370p (OUP 1998)
Hardback. Price GB £103.00

The Craft of Zeus
By John Scheid and Jesper Svenbro
A study of the use of weaving as a metaphor in Greek and Roman myth and society. The authors explore weaving as a metaphor for marriage, one of its most frequent uses, but also elucidate political and poetic representations of weaving and fabric. `[It] ...
Paperback. Price GB £13.95
Hardback. Price GB £31.50

Sporting Success in the Greek and Roman World
by Audrey Briers
The history of early athletics and competitive sports, from local city events to the Olympic games. In three sections , the book covers training, athletics, competitions and chariot racing, with a final chapter on the circus Maximus and the Colosseum in ...
Paperback. Price GB £4.95

Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
Worman, Nancy
This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and its excesses in order to deride professional speakers as sophists, demagogues, and women. Although the patterns of imagery explored are very prominent ...
Hardback. Price GB £55.00