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Worshipping Athena : Panathenaia and Parthenon

by: Neils, J.

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Category: Wisconsin Studies in Classics
Code: 1108
ISBN-13: 9780299151140 / 978-0-299-15114-0
ISBN-10: 029915114X / 0-299-15114-X
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Publication Date: 1996
Publication Place: Madison, Wisconsin
Binding: Paper
Pages: 249
Book Condition: New
Comments: Wisconsin studies in classics / xii, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. / Theseus and Athenian festivals / Erika Simon --Athena's shrines and festivals / Noel Robertson --Women in the Panathenaic and other festivals / Mary R. Lefkowitz --

Worshipping Athena : Panathenaia and Parthenon

Author: Jenifer Neils

Summary:The foremost religious festival of ancient Athens was the Panathenaia. This work addresses the problems of its interpretation, discussing the seasonal controversy over the Parthenon frieze. The festival is also compared with others held throughout the ancient Greek world.

Series:
Wisconsin studies in classics

xii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm


Contents:
Theseus and Athenian festivals / Erika Simon
Athena's shrines and festivals / Noel Robertson
Women in the Panathenaic and other festivals / Mary R. Lefkowitz
Group and single competitions at the Panathenaia / Alan L. Boegehold
Gifts and glory : Panathenaic and other Greek athletic prizes / Donald G. Kyle
Panathenaic amphoras : the other side / Richard Hamilton
Shield devices and column-mounted statues on Panathenaic amphoras : some remarks on iconography / Michalis Tiverios
Pride, pomp, and circumstance : the iconography of procession / Jenifer Neils
The web of history : a conservative reading of the Parthenon frieze / Evelyn B. Harrison
Democracy and imperialism : the Panathenaia in the age of Perikles / H.A. Shapiro

 
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Worshipping Athena : Panathenaia and Parthenon

by: Neils, J.

  • ISBN-13: 9780299151140 / 978-0-299-15114-0
  • ISBN-03: 029915114X / 0-299-15114-X
  • The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1996

Price: 32,86 EURO

(in stock)