Knapp M Robert C (1 results)

Condition: Minor rubbing. VG. orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG Textual photos & diagrams. 31x23cm, xxix,385 pp, With 9 large folding plans in rear pocket. Contents: Location & History of Excavations; Description of the Remains; The Entrance to the Stadium; The Tunnell Graffiti; History & Chronology; The Apodyterion; An Informal Funerary Inscription; The Pre-Christian Coins from the Stadium; Varia; Conclusions; Appendices: Catalogue of Artifacts; Catalogue of Graffiti. ["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. Excavations sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley since 1974 have revealed many details of Nemea's history. These discoveries, together with ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean Games." - Publisher's description].…