The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes Lunt David
The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes Lunt David The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks celebrated…
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The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Archaeology, Athletes, and Heroes Lunt David
The Crown Games were the apex of competition in ancient Greece. For over nine hundred years, the Greeks celebrated these athletic and religious festivals, a rare point of cultural unity amid the fierce regional independence of the numerous Greek city-states and kingdoms.The Crown Games of Ancient Greece examines these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world, a vast and sprawling cultural region that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa. Along with prestigious athletic contests in honor of Zeus at Olympia, they comprised the Pythian Games for Apollo at Delphi, the Isthmian Games for Poseidon, and the Nemean Games, sacred to Zeus.
Illuminating the unique history and features of the celebrations, David Lunt delves into the development of the contest sites as sanctuaries and the Panhellenic competitions that gave them their distinctive
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