The Panatheniac Games: Proceedings of an International Conference Held at the University of Athens, May 11-12, 2004

by Palagia, Olga; Spetsieri-choremi, Alkestis

• ISBN13: 9781842172216
• ISBN10: 1842172212
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-30
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens on May 11-14, 2004, and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in general and of individual contests in particular. The role of royal and other patrons in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the form and meaning of victory dedications and other monuments generated by the games were also examined, making this a truly interdisciplinary study into this fascinating event. Two papers in Greek.

Table of Contents

Panathenaic amphoras	p. 1
Panathenaic prizes and dedications	p. 21
Gods and athletic games	p. 33
Replicating tradition : the first celebrations of the greater Panathenaia	p. 41
Games at the lesser Panathenaia?	p. 53
The iconography of the Athenian apobates race : origins, meanings, transformation	p. 59
Torch race and vase-painting	p. 73
A unique new depiction of a Panathenaic victor	p. 81
Panathenaic prize amphorae from the Kerameikos : some new aspects and results	p. 91
"Not that the vases are easy to interpret ..." some thoughts on Panathenaic prize amphorae	p. 101
A[actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 109
"Choregic" or victory monuments of the tribal Panathenaic contests	p. 117
A[actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 127
Royal Athenians : the Ptolemies and Attalids at the Panathenaia	p. 135
The Panathenaic stadium from the Hellenistic to the Roman period : Panathenaic prize-amphorae and the Biel throne	p. 147
Athens and Herculaneum : the case of the Panathenaic Athenas	p. 159
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