Games and festivals in classical antiquity : proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000 / edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies.
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TextSeries: BAR international seriesPublication details: Oxford : Archaeopress, 2004.Description: vi, 153 p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN: - 1841715808
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Includes bibliographical references.
Grasping the bull by the horns: Minoan bull sports / Eleanor Loughlin -- Festival? What festival? Reading dance imagery as evidence / Tyler Jo Smith -- Professional foul: persona in Pindar / Gráinne McLaughlin -- Orestes the contender: chariot racing and politics in fifth century Athens and Sophocles' Electra / Eleanor Okell -- From Agônistês to Agônios: Hermes, chaos and conflict in competitive games and festivals / Arlene Allan -- Dionysiac festivals in Aristophanes' Acharnians / Greta Ham -- The perils of Pittalakos: settings of cock fighting and dicing in classical Athens / Nick Fisher -- Civic self-representation in the Hellenistic world: the festival of Artemis Leukophryene / Geoffrey Sumi -- Roman games and Greek origins in Dionysius of Halicarnassus / Clemence Schultze -- Epic games and real games in Statius' Thebaid 6 and Virgil's Aeneid 5 / Helen Lovatt -- Sport or showbiz? The naumachiae of imperial Rome / Francesca Garello -- Dionysiac scenes on Sagalassian Oinophoroi from Seleuceia Sidera in Pisidia / Ergèun Lafli -- Christianising the celebrations of death in late antiquity / Julia Burman -- The Sala dei Cavalli in Palazzo Te: portraits of champions / Elizabeth Tobey.