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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. Since 1974, excavations
sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed
many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature
of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the
festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in
the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the
basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean
Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and
physical remains of the festival center and a complement to
detailed final publications on the excavation now being
prepared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.  Contributors: Ana M.
Abraldes, Darice Birge, Alison Futrell, Michael Goethals, Lynne
Kraynak, Mark Landon, Jeannie Marchand.
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. Since 1974, excavations
sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley have revealed
many details of Nemea's history, as well as evidence for the nature
of the buildings and other facilities which were part of the
festival center. These discoveries, together with smaller finds in
the museum and ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the
basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean
Games. This guidebook is an introduction to the history and
physical remains of the festival center and a complement to
detailed final publications on the excavation now being
prepared. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press’s
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1990.  Contributors: Ana M.
Abraldes, Darice Birge, Alison Futrell, Michael Goethals, Lynne
Kraynak, Mark Landon, Jeannie Marchand.
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