Games and festivals in classical antiquity
Subtitle: proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000
By: edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies.
Contributors: Bell, Sinclair.; Davies, Glenys.
Series: BAR international series ;; 1220; BAR international series ;; 1220.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Games -- Greece -- Congresses.; Games -- Rome -- Congresses.; Festivals -- Greece -- Congresses.; Festivals -- Rome -- Congresses.; Greece -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Rome -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Grasping the bull by the horns: Minoan bull sports / Eleanor Loughlin; title: Festival? What festival? Reading dance imagery as evidence / Tyler Jo Smith; title: Professional foul: persona in Pindar / Gráinne McLaughlin; title: Orestes the contender: chariot racing and politics in fifth century Athens and Sophocles' Electra / Eleanor Okell; title: From Agônistês to Agônios: Hermes, chaos and conflict in competitive games and festivals / Arlene Allan; title: Dionysiac festivals in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Greta Ham; title: The perils of Pittalakos: settings of cock fighting and dicing in classical Athens / Nick Fisher; title: Civic self-representation in the Hellenistic world: the festival of Artemis Leukophryene / Geoffrey Sumi; title: Roman games and Greek origins in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze; title: Epic games and real games in Statius' Thebaid 6 and Virgil's Aeneid 5 / Helen Lovatt; title: Sport or showbiz? The naumachiae of imperial Rome / Francesca Garello; title: Dionysiac scenes on Sagalassian Oinophoroi from Seleuceia Sidera in Pisidia / Ergün Lafli; title: Christianising the celebrations of death in late antiquity / Julia Burman; title: The Sala dei Cavalli in Palazzo Te: portraits of champions / Elizabeth Tobey.