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Mind and Body : Athletic contests in Ancient Greece

by: Tzachou-Alexandri, O.

Price: 65,00 EURO

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Category: Books from Greece / Greek Books
Code: 17310
Publisher: Ministry of Culture - The National Hellenic Committee I.C.O.M.
Publication Date: 1989
Publication Place: Athens
Binding: Paper
Pages: 351
Book Condition: Good

Mind and body : athletic contests in ancient Greece

Authors:Olga Tzachou-Alexandri, Greece Hypourgeio Politismou, International Council of Museums Hellēniko Tmēma, Ethnikon Archaiologikon Mouseion (Greece)

348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm


Contents:
Contests in the Bronze Age Aegean : Crete, Thera and Mycenaean Greece / Katie Demakopoulou
The Gymnasium : an institution for athletics and education / Olga Tzachou-Alexandri
The Panathenaic festival / Katerina Rhomiopoulou
Olympia : the sanctuary and the contests / Klaus Herrmann
Delphi and the Pythian games / Olivier Picard
The sanctuary of Poseidon on the Isthmus of Corinth and the Isthmian games / Elizabeth R. Gebhard
Nemea and the Nemean games / Stephen G. Miller
The events : foot-race, jumping, discus-throwing, javelin-throwing, wrestling, pentathlon, boxing, pankration, chariot-racing, equestrian contests / Elisabeth Kakarouga-Stassinopoulou, Rosa Proskynitopoulou, Stavroula Papadiamantopoulou-Kalliodi

 

Catalog of an exhibition held in Athens, Greece, 15th May, 1989 through 15th January, 1990 at the National Archaeological Museum
Includes contributions translated into English

 

Subjects:
Art, Greek
Art, Greek Exhibitions
Athletes in art
Athletes in art Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Greece
History
Sports
Sports Greece History
Sports Grèce Histoire
Sports dans l'art Expositions
Sports in art
Sports in art Exhibitions

 
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Mind and Body : Athletic contests in Ancient Greece

by: Tzachou-Alexandri, O.

  • Ministry of Culture - The National Hellenic Committee I.C.O.M., Athens, 1989

Price: 65,00 EURO

1 copy in stock