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This volume is intended as an introduction to the classics for both beginners and more experienced students. Issues addressed include the extent to which cultural and social forms change through time, and the extent of change in cultural systems since antiquity.

Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. It is the ultimate guide to ancient sport.

Holy rollers, hype, antics, claims of miracles, and the gift of tongues? These are what some of the modern Christian world and non-believers associate with "Pentecost." Author Mark Lee Golden reassesses this Jewish festive holiday by constructing a meticulously researched but fi ctional rendering of these events passing through ancient times.Explore the doubts, the struggles, and the hopes of Moses and the Israelites at Mt. Sinai as they come ...

For two years I lived with Mary or Miryam (as she prefers). I watched, listened to, followed, and learned about her in ways no one had before. Mary knew I was there, also that she needed to allow me to report on her and her life. Yes, in such episodes, I crafted, cared for and composed a Mary of my own making by adding to the Gospels' foundational design. But, she understood this. We never talked directly. Yet, our roles were understood. She l...

An unknown pursuer chases a woman who bears and protects a cold, darkened heart. Frustrated, she is cornered by something foreign, yet good. The prey? Dr. Lissa Ryons, forensic scientist at the heart of the busy United Nations Headquarters. Discovered in the Lost and Found is a formal cloth table napkin. On both sides are intricate writings of an unknown language and perplexing diagrams. Forensics receives the unusual napkin for analysis. Dr. ...

Er ist der Sohn des Teufels und hat sich doch so ganz anders entwickelt: Statt Böses in die Welt zu bringen, kämpft Hellboy für Gerechtigkeit, den Glauben an das Gute im Menschen und allem voran gegen die Nazis. In vierzehn Geschichten sorgen Autoren aus Horror (Joe R. Lansdale), Fantasy (Tad Williams) und Krimi (Ken Bruen) für Gänsehaut und Lachanfälle, wenn sie neue Geschichten rund um Hellboy und seine Kollegen von der Behörde zur Untersuch...

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For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then...

For centuries discussions of sexuality and gender in the ancient world, if they took place at all, focused on how the roles and spheres of the sexes were divided. While men occupied the public sphere of the community, ranged through the Greek and Roman worlds and participated in politics, courts, theatre and sport, women kept to the home. Sex occupied a separate sphere, in scholarly terms restricted to specialists in ancient medicine. And then...

Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly different from our own. Both idea and practice also varied within antiquity, shaped by locale, history, social class, age, legal status, and gender. Focusing on the cultures of the Mediterranean from 800 BCE to 350 CE, A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World co...

First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from about 500 to 300 B.C. Golden discusses how the Athenians viewed children and childhood, describes eve...

First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from about 500 to 300 B.C. Golden discusses how the Athenians viewed children and childhood, describes eve...

Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z covers an extraordinarily wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities.Arranged in an easy-to-use dictionary format, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. The approach throughout is comprehensive yet succinct, with key topics, such as athletic festivals, chariot racing, prizes and the role of women receiving more de...

From the ancient Olympic Games to the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. This collection of essays discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times.

Accessible to nonspecialists, this book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of the Olympic games, athletic nudity, professionalism, and the place of women in Greek sport. Illustrated.