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Author:   Julia L. Shear (Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.120kg
ISBN:  

9781108485272

ISBN 10:   1108485278
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   11 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The Panathenaia: An Introduction; 2. Giants and Heroes: The Mythologies of the Panathenaia; 3. The Little Panathenaia; 4. The Great Panathenaia: Ritual and Reciprocity; 5. The Panathenaic Games: Entertaining the Goddess; 6. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Athenian Men; 7. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Other Residents and Non-Residents; 8. The City, the Goddess and the Festival; Appendix 1. The Hellenistic Archons of Athens: 323/2 to 48/7 BC; Appendix 2. The Parthenon Frieze and the Panathenaia; Appendix 3. The Races for the Apobates and the Dismounting Charioteer; Appendix 4: The Pyrrhiche and the Tribal Team Events; Appendix 5: The Date of IG II2 3079 = IG II3.4 528; Appendix 6: The Officials of the Great Panathenaia in the Third Century BC; Appendix 7: Tiberius Claudius Novius and the Great Panathenaia Sebasta; Appendix 8: The Text of Agora XVIII C197; Tables; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Collections; General Index.

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'Shear's approach is programmatically holistic; she uses literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources as well as theories of the social sciences ... This book provides impressive evidence for the festival throughout its history and thought-provoking insights into the logics of constructing identities for the various subgroups attested as participants over the course of time. Hopefully, it will motivate further discussion about the importance and relevance of cult practices for social history - and for the cult.' Marion Meyer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author Information

Julia L. Shear is a CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University and a Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, having previously held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and positions at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Runciman Award in 2012, and has published a significant series of articles on Athenian religion, memory, society and culture. She has also excavated extensively on various sites in Greece, Italy and Cyprus and especially in the Athenian Agora in Athens in Greece.

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