Excavations at Nemea 1973-4 [&] 1975
Title | Excavations at Nemea 1973-4 [&] 1975 PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Gaylord Miller |
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Excavations at Nemea IV
Title | Excavations at Nemea IV PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge J. Bravo III |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2018-03-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520967879 |
The Sanctuary of Zeus at ancient Nemea has been a rich resource for archaeological investigation and analysis conducted by the University of California over the past forty years. The Sanctuary hosted one of the preeminent athletic festivals of ancient Greece, the Nemean Games. Just as the Olympics were celebrated in connection with the cult of Pelops at Olympia, the games at Nemea were founded on the worship of the hero Opheltes. The Shrine of Opheltes in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea offers one of the best examples of an ancient Greek hero cult documented in the archaeological record. This final and most significant volume in the Excavations at Nemea series presents the results of the excavation of the Shrine from 1979 through 2001 and analyzes the Shrine's features and contents in order to understand its history and use. A study of the literary and artistic evidence about the myth and cult of Opheltes contextualizes the archaeological findings and illuminates the hero's significance to the Sanctuary and its renowned festival, the Nemean Games.
Excavations at Nemea III
Title | Excavations at Nemea III PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Knapp |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2005-05-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520927907 |
Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site—the late Archaic and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian, and the Byzantine. More than a compendium of data, the study breaks new ground with its analysis and contextualization of numismatic evidence in an archaeological setting.
Excavations at Nemea III
Title | Excavations at Nemea III PDF eBook |
Author | Darice Elizabeth Birge |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780520231696 |
Annotation The authors describe Nemea, one of the five Greek sites of ancient athletic games, and examine in great detail the coins discovered there, from the classical period to the Early Christian period and after.
Nemea
Title | Nemea PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Miller |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520310918 |
In classical antiquity, beginning in 573 B.C., Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle, and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious and athletic festival center where the Greek world assembled every two years under a flag of truce. Since 1974, excavations sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and physical remains of the festival center and a complement to detailed final publications on the excavation now being prepared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. Contributors: Ana M. Abraldes, Darice Birge, Alison Futrell, Michael Goethals, Lynne Kraynak, Mark Landon, Jeannie Marchand.
The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill
Title | The Mycenaean Settlement on Tsoungiza Hill PDF eBook |
Author | Mary K. Dabney |
Publisher | American School of Classical Studies at Athens |
Pages | 1235 |
Release | 2020-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1621390365 |
A hill dominating the Nemea Valley, Tsoungiza is located only 10 kilometers northwest of the citadel of Mycenae. Excavations there have uncovered the remains of a Late Helladic settlement that stood at its southern end. This volume presents the results of these investigations with an unprecedented study of a small settlement's economy and society in the Mycenaean period. Through an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates a wide variety of general and specialist studies, the authors demonstrate how agricultural production, craft activities, and ceremonial practices integrated the inhabitants of Tsoungiza into a regional exchange system within the Bronze Age world. The volume includes contributions by P. Acheson, S. E. Allen, K. M. Forste, P. Halstead, S. M. A. Hoffmann, A. Karabatsoli, K. Kaza-Papageorgiou, B. Lis, R. Mersereau, H. Mommsen, J. B. Rutter, T. Theodoropoulou, and J. E. Tomlinson.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Architectural Terracottas of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
Title | Proceedings of the International Conference on Greek Architectural Terracottas of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy A. Winter |
Publisher | ASCSA |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780876615270 |
A collection of papers on architectural terracottas revealing aspects of ancient history and the classical world from mainland Greece, Northern Greece and Albania, the Black Sea, Aegean Islands and Asia Minor, South Italy and Sicily.