Egypt
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Reyes Bertolin)
- The Future Of Libyan Heritage And Tourism
The New York Times (Mike Elkin) More than 2,600 years after the Greeks founded the city of Cyrene in the mountains of northeastern Libya, the ancient gymnasium’s high stone walls still shield athletes from the winter winds as they train among the ruins....
- Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
- Ancient Egypt Games Online
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has collected together a set of ancient Egypt-based games which can be played online. I had no idea how many were available. The first two games shown are online versions of genuine ancient Egyptian games and the...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Book Review: Zwischen König Und Karikatur
Bryn Mawr Classical Review ( Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick) Peter Nadig. Zwischen König und Karikatur. Das Bild Ptolemaios' VIII. im Spannungsfeld der Überlieferung. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 97. ...
Egypt
Book Review: Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Reyes Bertolin)
Zinon Papakonstantinou (ed.), Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World. New Perspectives. Sport in the Global Society. Routledge, 2009.
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The fifth essay, Sofie Remijsen's "Challenged by Egyptians: Greek Sports in the Third Century BC", deals with the efforts of the Ptolemies to spread sport as a means of strengthening their own image of power. For this they possessed four means: creating new kinds of games in Egypt, sponsoring Egyptian athletes to participate in the Greek games, entering themselves into equestrian events, and engaging the poets Callimachus and Posidippus to promote their success. At the beginning, only athletes who lived in or competed for a Greek city were counted as eligible to participate in the Greek games. The city most commonly given for these foreign athletes was Alexandria. Only in later Roman times do we find the names of native Egyptian towns given for the athletes.
- The Future Of Libyan Heritage And Tourism
The New York Times (Mike Elkin) More than 2,600 years after the Greeks founded the city of Cyrene in the mountains of northeastern Libya, the ancient gymnasium’s high stone walls still shield athletes from the winter winds as they train among the ruins....
- Book Review: Poems In Context
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by David Hernández de la Fuente) Laura Miguélez Cavero, Poems in Context: Greek Poetry in the Egyptian Thebaid 200-600 AD. Sozomena. Studies in the Recovery of Ancient Texts 2. Berlin/New York: W. De Gruyter, 2008....
- Ancient Egypt Games Online
Talking Pyramids (Vincent Brown) Vincent has collected together a set of ancient Egypt-based games which can be played online. I had no idea how many were available. The first two games shown are online versions of genuine ancient Egyptian games and the...
- Book Review: Daughters Of Gaia
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Reviewed by Christina A. Clark) Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia. Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World. Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007. Table of Contents In her preface to Daughters of Gaia, Vivante declares that...
- Book Review: Zwischen König Und Karikatur
Bryn Mawr Classical Review ( Reviewed by Paul Edmund Stanwick) Peter Nadig. Zwischen König und Karikatur. Das Bild Ptolemaios' VIII. im Spannungsfeld der Überlieferung. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und antiken Rechtsgeschichte 97. ...