10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGONOTHETES»
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agonothetes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Building Program of Herod the Great
He was especially concerned about the poverty of the Olympic Games, and in 1 2
B.C. he accepted the post of agonothetes (for the date, see supra, p. 74). That
summer he was traveling to Rome for the last of his three trips, and he was thus ...
2
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
For Hedea, who won the chariot race in armor at the Isthmian Games when
Cornelius Pulcher was agonothetes, and the stadion at the Nemean Games
when Antigonos was agonothetes and at Sikyon when Menoitas was
agonothetes.
3
The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the ...
The title of agonothetes was quite common as early as the fifth century for
managers of various musical agones, so the term may have had a certain old-
fashioned air, and perhaps too a certain dignified lustre. Herodotos used it as an
...
4
Augustan and Julio-Claudian Athens: A New Epigraphy and ...
78 above. (190) IG II2 3535 Statue Dedication: in honor of Tib. Cl. Novios of Oion,
as strategos IV and agonothetes of the Great Panathenaia Sebasta and Kaisarea
Sebasta; probably A.D. 47/48 or 51/52. Edition(s): see SEG 21 (1965) no. 742 ...
Geoffrey C. R. Schmalz, 2009
5
Güterbegriff und Handlungstheorie:
Such seems to be the case in an inscription from Alexandria" honouring a
gymnasiarch and
agonothetes for having provided oil to the athletes, perhaps
more generously than usual (<piXoTÎ[A(i>ç, àXeiçovTi). The inscription, probably
of the ...
6
The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the ...
56 For the agonothetes, see Mikalson (1998: 54-7) and Wilson (2000: 270-6).
The first attestations of an agonothetes, E 61/oK/\17$ .561'1/18o$ 207777010
were believed to be 1G 112 3073 and 3077, dated to 307/6 BC. Lambert (2000-3
) has ...
The agonothetes' contribution was almost certainly largely financial: in one
instance, the holder of the office seems to have paid for choroi for all the tribes,
but this occasion was perhaps unusual in that the agonothetes was the very
wealthy ...
Barbara Kowalzig, Peter Wilson, 2013
8
Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A ...
Dinippus not only fulfilled this post on three separate occasions, but he also was
duovir, duovir quinquennalis and agonothetes of the Neronean, Caesarean and
Isthmian games; furthermore he was priest of the Britannic victory, augur, military
...
9
Religion in Hellenistic Athens
We know that the agonothetes of 284/3 did contribute and was honored for it.
When Philippides of Kephale (APF 14356), the rich Athenian poet of New
Comedy, was elected agonothetes in the year of the archonship of Isaios, "he
heeded the ...
10
The Attic theatre: a description of the stage and theatre of ...
The name of the Agonothetes occurs frequently in inscriptions during the third
century. After this date there is no mention of any further changes till about the
first century a. d., when there seems to have been a sort of antiquarian revival,
and an ...
Arthur Elam Haigh, Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGONOTHETES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
agonothetes is used in the context of the following news items.
From Balkan backwater to must-see destination (you'll never guess …
Monument of Agonothetes in Apollonia. (Getty Images/iStockphoto). After visiting an overlook near the village of Orikum, where we took in the ... «The Globe and Mail, Jan 15»
How Herod the tyrant saved the Olympics
In return for his generosity, Herod was proclaimed president (agonothetes) of the Olympic Games for life — a position possibly created ... «The Times of Israel, Feb 14»
