The material dynamics of festivals in the Graeco-Roman East /
"This volume explores the various ways in which the experience of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East was created and framed by material culture. By the second and third centuries ad, Greek festivals were thriving across the eastern Mediterranean. Much of our knowledge of these festivals,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in ancient documents.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the material worlds of ancient festivals / Zahra Newby
- Establishing a channel of communication: Roman emperors and the self-presentation of Greek athletes in the Roman east / Sebastian Scharff
- Agonistic legislation in Hadrian's time / Rocío Gordillo Hervás
- Greek festival culture and 'political' games at Nikaia in Bithynia / Dario Calomino
- Tokens from Roman imperial Athens: the power of cultural memory / Mairi Gkikaki
- Festivals and the performance of community and status in the theatres at Hierapolis and Perge / Zahra Newby
- An epigraphic stage: inscriptions and the moulding of festival space at Aphrodisias / Naomi Carless Unwin
- The artists of Dionysos and the festivals of Boiotia / Paul Grigsby
- Sacred Circles: enclosed sanctuaries and their festival communities in the Hellenistic world / Christina G. Williamson
- The materiality of light in religious celebrations and rituals in the Roman east / Angelos Chaniotis
- Conclusions and future directions / Zahra Newby.