| Description |
1 online resource (347 p.) |
| Series |
Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Series |
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Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Appendix of Token Types in Chapter 5 -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: The Material Worlds of Ancient Festivals -- 1.1. The dynamics of material culture in festivals of the Greek East -- 1.2. The material frameworks for the experience of festivals: continuity and change -- 1.3. Cities, emperors, and the elite: the social frameworks of civic festivals -- 1.4. Outline of the volume |
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2. Establishing a Channel of Communication: Roman Emperors and the Self-Presentation of Greek Athletes in the Roman East -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The emperor at the games. Direct (and indirect) presence of emperors at Greek festivals -- 2.3. The emperor and the games. Imperial intervention in the agonistic circuit -- 2.4. Athletes and their victories. The agency of material culture in imperial athletics -- 2.5. Concluding remarks -- 3. Agonistic Legislation in Hadrian's Time -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. The letters at Alexandria Troas and the role of the synod |
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3.3. Hadrian's impact on the festival calendar -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Greek Festival Culture and 'Political' Games at Nikaia in Bithynia -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Nikaia and Nikomedia -- 4.3. Games for the empire -- 4.4. The Severan Philadelpheia -- 4.5. Concluding remarks -- 5. Tokens from Roman Imperial Athens: The Power of Cultural Memory -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Tokens from Ancient Athens and their historiography -- 5.3. The tokens from the Stoa of Attalos -- 5.4. Tokens in the festivals of Roman Athens -- 5.5. Tokens and their meaning in the contexts of festivals |
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5.6. Tokens and elite self-representation -- 5.7. Athenian heritage, ephebes, and the gerousia -- 5.8. Tokens' distribution, value, and euergetism -- 5.9. Conclusion: token imagery or 'imagining Athens' in the third century ad -- 6. Festivals and the Performance of Community and Status in the Theatres at Hierapolis and Perge -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Defining festival culture at Hierapolis -- 6.3. Civic roles in festivals at Perge -- 6.4. Conclusions -- 7. An Epigraphic Stage: Inscriptions and the Moulding of Festival Space at Aphrodisias -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Modelling benefaction |
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7.3. Modelling victory -- 7.4. Civic history on display -- 7.5. Inscribing the cavea -- 7.6. The backstage area -- 7.7. An epigraphic stage -- 8. The Artists of Dionysos and the Festivals of Boiotia -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Artists of Dionysos in the Hellenistic period in Boiotia -- 8.3. The Artists of Dionysos in Roman Boiotia -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9. Sacred Circles: Enclosed Sanctuaries and Their Festival Communities in the Hellenistic World -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. The sacred circle-ritual in enclosed space -- 9.3. When the circle is a square-festival culture and peristyle shrines |
| Summary |
Much of our knowledge of civic festivals in the Graeco-Roman East comes from material culture--inscriptions, coins, architecture, and art-works. This volume draws attention to the choices made on what to record (and where, and how) in a variety of different forms of material culture relating to Greek festivals from the Hellenistic to Roman periods |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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9.4. Three case studies |
| Subject |
Festivals -- Greece -- History
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Festivals -- Rome -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192695291 |
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0192695290 |
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