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Subject(s)

• Festivals—Greece—History [Browse]
• Festivals—Rome—History [Browse]
• Material culture—Greece—History [Browse]
• Material culture—Rome—History [Browse]
• Greece—Antiquities [Browse]
• Rome—Antiquities [Browse]

Editor

• Newby, Zahra [Browse]

Series

• Oxford studies in ancient documents. [More in this series]
• Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

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

Also issued in print: 2023.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 31, 2023).

Contents

• Intro
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 9.4. Three case studies
• 9.5. Conclusions: worlds within worlds
• 10. The Materiality of Light in Religious Celebrations and Rituals in the Roman East
• 10.1. Introduction: shedding light on nocturnal celebrations
• 10.2. The emotional impact of nocturnal rituals
• 10.3. The materiality of artificial light: lamps, lamp-hangers, and torch-bearing statues
• 10.4. Oriental nights in Larisa
• 10.5. Fire in the Cave of Zeus
• 10.6. Torches and cranes in Abonou Teichos
• 10.7. Statues that burn and statues in flames: the Daidala of Boiotia
• 10.8. Conclusions
• 11. Conclusions and Future Directions
• 11.1. The material expression of social networks, collaborations and hierarchies
• 11.2. Forging memories and identities through material culture.
• 11.3. Static and portable monuments: capturing the ephemeral and creating communities
• 11.4. Material framings of the ritual experience
• Index.

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ISBN

• 0-19-196483-2
• 0-19-269528-2
• 0-19-269529-0

OCLC

1395918644

Doi

• 10.1093/oso/9780192868794.001.0001

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