Games and festivals in classical antiquity :  proceedings of the conference held in Edinburgh 10-12 July 2000 / 
edited by Sinclair Bell, Glenys Davies. 
 - Oxford :  Archaeopress,  2004. 
 - vi, 153 p. :  ill. ;  30 cm. 
 - BAR international series 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1841715808 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Games--Greece--Congresses<br/>Games--Rome--Congresses<br/>Festivals--Greece--Congresses<br/>Festivals--Rome--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Rome--Antiquities--Congresses<br/>Greece--Antiquities--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.0938