Article: Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece.(The History Shelf)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient ...
Antiquity;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... only the exploration of the great sanctuaries such as Ephesus or Samos, but ... changing our basis of knowledge. The sanctuary no longer appears only as a place ... sociability. For Polignac, the sanctuaries are more than ever the means by ...

Article: Women And Ritual -- Priestesses In Ancient Greece ...
M2 Presswire;  March 29, 2001 ;     586 words ... ... And Ritual -- Priestesses In Ancient Greece is Phi Bet a Kappa Scholar Lecture ... Women and Ritual: Priestesses in Ancient Greece" is the title of the Phi Beta ... Merrifield Hall, room 111 "Cypriot Sanctuaries: The Votive Tradition" Tuesday ...

Article: GAMES ARE AS FLAWED TODAY AS THEY WERE IN ANCIENT ...
The Boston Globe;  August 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... phone from high on Mount Lykaion at one of several ancient sanctuaries of Zeus scattered across the country. "There were some ... idea in his mind was to symbolize Germany as the heir of ancient Greece" an idea that fit well with Nazi race theories. Perhaps ...

Article: Reinterpreting the ancients.(Portrait of a Priestess: Women and ...
The Women's Review of Books;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece By Joan Breton Connelly Princeton, NJ: Princeton University ... Acropolis to a spot outside the city called Skiron, near a sanctuary of Demeter and Kore. This was "a special festival for the ...

Article: Clay Pots Found at Ancient Greece Shrine
AP Online;  May 23, 2007 ;     334 words ... ... miniature clay pots and statuettes in the ruins of an ancient sanctuary possibly dedicated to the Three Graces, officials said on ... fertility," the ministry statement said. It said a famous sanctuary of the Three Graces - deities of growth and beauty - was known ...

Article: Ancient Greece for a Graduate
The Washington Post;  March 15, 2009 ;     685 words ... ... classical sites of Mycenae also can be done on a driving trip from Athens. Don't miss the island of Delos, considered a holy sanctuary for a thousand years before Olympian Greek mythology declared it the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Roman villas were ...

Article: OLYMPIC SELF-SACRIFICE.(Olympics in Ancient Greece)
History Today;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... historical examples, three of them taken from the not (to us) so obviously religious fields of war and politics away from the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. It does not matter whether the incidents happened exactly as reported. The point is that the Greeks ...