Festivals of the Athenians
Author | : Herbert William Parke |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Herbert William Parke |
Publisher | : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sourvinou-Inwood Christiane the late |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2011-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199592071 |
Moving out from a particular problem about a particular Athenian festival, the late Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood investigates central questions concerning Athenian festivals and the myths that underlay them. This is the final work of an iconic figure among students of Greek religion.
Author | : Laurialan Reitzammer |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0299308200 |
A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.
Author | : Erika Simon |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299091842 |
The festivals of the Athenian sacred calendar constitute a vital key to classical Greek culture and religion. Erika Simon sets out here to explicate those complex and often obscure festivals. By careful marshaling of a variety of proofs from literary, historical, and archaeological sources, she is able to justify some startling conclusions and achieve a comprehensive and truly original synthesis that clarifies, as never before, the probable origins and meanings of the Attic cults.
Author | : Julia L. Shear |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108618022 |
In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.
Author | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-12-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780299151140 |
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 |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Arts, Greek |
ISBN | : 9780691036120 |
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 | : Jenifer Neils |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108484557 |
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author | : David Phillips |
Publisher | : Classical Press of Wales |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1914535227 |
How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade Greek culture? This collection of fifteen new studies from an international cast took its inspiration from the exceptional Sydney Olympics of 2000. The focus here is on the ancient world, but additionally there is a sophisticated look at how Greek artefacts linked with sport can best be presented to the modern world.
Author | : Douglas Olson |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2012-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900423201X |
IG II2 2318–2325 represent the most substantial surviving body of evidence for the institutional history of the Athenian dramatic festivals from their establishment at the end of the 6th century BCE to their disappearance sometime in the mid- to late 100s. Millis and Olson offer a completely updated text of the inscriptions, based on a close study of the stones themselves; detailed explanations of the restorations of the dimensions and organization of the original records, with numerous redatings and the like; and new — and in some cases radically different — reconstructions of the monuments on which they were inscribed. The volume also includes substantial interpretative essays on each set of records, a full epigraphic and prosopographic commentary, and several indices.