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This volume deals with the architectural history of the theatre in Roman Palestine and Provincia Arabia, a region which comprised a Jewish, Nabataean, and Hellenized population but lacked any tradition of classical theatre. The earliest examples, erected by Herod, were actually a foreign imposition upon the landscape of Judaea, while the theatres built in the Nabataean kingdom provided no more than an architectural setting for activities which were often unrelated to theatre in the accepted sense. When the Hellenized cities in the region began building their theatres, classical plays were already disappearing from the stage throughout the Roman world, their place taken by lighter, less select forms of public entertainment. The author then offers a comprehensive architectural analysis of each of the thirty theatres so far uncovered in the area. Richly illustrated, it provides a vivid reconstruction of a world which, though long gone, continues to fascinate.

Architecture --- Roman history --- Theaters --- Amphitheaters --- Architecture, Roman --- Théâtres --- Architecture romaine --- -Amphitheaters --- -Architecture, Roman --- -Roman architecture --- Coliseums --- Outdoor concert facilities --- Opera-houses --- Playhouses (Theaters) --- Theatres --- Arts facilities --- Auditoriums --- Centers for the performing arts --- Music-halls --- -Theaters --- Théâtres --- Roman architecture

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Les courses hippiques ont eu dans le monde grec une importance considérable, non seulement dans les concours olympiques, mais dans beaucoup d’autres rencontres sportives de fréquentation locale, régionale ou panhellénique. Ce volume constitue le premier ouvrage exclusivement consacré à ces courses et aux hippodromes. Il rend compte des importants progrès faits ces dernières années dans l’analyse des représentations iconographiques et des textes littéraires ou épigraphiques ayant trait aux sports hippiques. Il contient de nouvelles restitutions d’hippodromes déjà connus, comme ceux d’Olympie et du Lykaion, et la présentation de pistes nouvellement identifiées, comme celles de Delphes ou d’Épidaure. Vingt-huit articles, issus d’un colloque international qui s’est tenu à Athènes en 2016, restituent dans toute leur ampleur et dans toute leur diversité la place et la forme des hippodromes et des courses hippiques dans l’architecture, les arts figurés, la poésie et l’histoire politique, économique, sociale et religieuse du monde grec. Horse racing held a significant role in the Greek world, not only in the Olympic competitions, but in many other sporting events – local, regional or Panhellenic. This volume is the first study to exclusively investigate these races and hippodromes. This volume acknowledges the significant progress made in recent years in the analysis of iconographic representations and literary or epigraphic texts relating to hippic sports. It outlines new reproductions of already known racetracks, such as those of Olympia and the Lykaion, and presents newly identified tracks, such as those of Delphi or Epidaurus. Twenty-eight articles, coming out of an international conference held in Athens in 2016, reproduce in all their breadth and diversity, the place and the form of racetracks and horse racing in architecture, the figurative arts, poetry and the political, economic, social and religious history of the Greek world.

Amphitheaters --- Horse racing --- Chariot racing --- Entertainment events --- History --- Greece --- Antiquities --- Hippodromes --- Courses de chevaux --- Courses de chars --- Spectacles et divertissements --- Religion grecque --- Antiquités --- Horse arenas --- E-books --- Amphitheaters - Greece - Congresses --- Horse racing - Greece - History - Congresses --- Chariot racing - Greece - History - Congresses --- Entertainment events - Greece - History - Congresses --- Greece - Antiquities - Congresses --- Classics --- History & Archaeology --- fouille --- Grèce --- site archéologique --- célébration --- cheval --- religion --- sport --- horse --- excavation --- Ancient Greece --- celebration --- caballo --- excavación --- ciudad griega --- Grecia antigua --- religión --- deporte --- cavallo --- scavo --- religione --- Grecia --- Pferd --- Ausgrabung