Interpreting the seventh century BC : tradition and innovation /

Table of Contents: “…Greek art in the seventh century BC: the example of bronzes from Delphi /…”
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The Crown Games of ancient Greece : archaeology, athletes, and heroes / by Lunt, David James

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Athletes, Festivals, and The Crown Games -- Olympia and the Olympian Games -- Nemea and the Nemean Games -- Isthmia and the Isthmian Games -- Delphi and the Pythian Games -- Crowned Champions -- Conclusions.…”
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The making of the Doric temple : architecture, religion, and social change in archaic Greece / by Zuchtriegel, Gabriel

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Explaining Architectural Change -- Korkyra: Contextualizing Early Doric Architecture -- Foce del Sele: Mythical and Colonial Landscapes -- Selinous: Urbanization and Temple Building -- Delphi: Architecture and Panhellenism.…”
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Divination and prophecy in the ancient Greek world /

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Aesopic conversations : popular tradition, cultural dialogue, and the invention of Greek prose / by Kurke, Leslie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an elusive quarry: In search of ancient Greek popular culture; Explaining the joke: a roadmap for classicists; Synopsis of method and structure of argument -- Aesop and the contestation of Delphic authority: Ideological tensions at Delphi; the Aesopic critique; Neoptolemus and Aesop: sacrifice, hero cult, and competitive scapegoating -- Sophia before/beyond philosophy: the tradition of Sophia; Sophists and (as) sages; Aristotle and the transformation of Sophia -- Aesop as sage: political counsel and discursive practice; Aesop among the sages; Political animals: fable and the scene of advising -- Reading the life: the progress of a sage and the anthropology of Sophia: an Aesopic anthropology of wisdom; Aesop and Ahiqar; Delphic theoria and the death of a sage; the bricoleur as culture hero, or the art of extorting self-incrimination -- The Aesopic parody of high wisdom: demystifying Sophia: Hesiod, Theognis, and the seven sages; Aesopic parody in the visual tradition? …”
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The Routledge companion to ecstatic experience in the ancient world /

Table of Contents: “…Winkelman -- Psychoactive plants in the ancient world : observations of an ethnobotanist / Giorgio Samorini -- Ecstasy meets paleoethnobotany : botanical stimulants in ancient Inner Asia / Alison Betts -- Caucasian cocktails : the early use of alcohol in 'the cradle of wine' / Stephen Batiuk -- Mind-altering plants in Babylonian medical sources / Barbara Böck -- Plant-based potions and ecstatic states in Hittite rituals / Rita Francia -- Forbidden at Philae : proscription of aphrodisiac and psychoactive plants in Ptolemaic Egypt / Riccardo Andreozzi and Claudia Sarkady -- The Ring-Kernos and psychotropic substances / David Ilan -- Beer, beasts and bodies : shedding boundaries in bounded spaces / Anne Porter -- Lament, spectacle and emotion in a ritual for Ishtar / Sam Mirelman -- Writing for the dead, welcoming the solar-eye goddess and ecstatic expression in Egyptian religion / John Coleman Darnell -- Altered states on prepalatial Crete / Emily Miller Bonney -- Bodies in ecstasy : shamanic elements in Minoan religion / Christine Morris and Alan Peatfield -- The Mycenaeans and ecstatic ritual experience / Susan Lupack -- Emotional arousal, sensory deprivation and 'miraculous healing' in the cult of Asclepius / Olympia Panagiotidou -- Ecstasy and initiation in the Eleusinian mysteries / Alice Clinch -- Apolline and Dionysian ecstasy at Delphi / Yulia Ustinova -- Communing with the spirits : funeral processions in ancient Rome / Maik Patzelt -- Ecstatic experience and possession disorders in ancient Mesopotamia / Ulrike Steinert -- Ghosts in and outside the machine : a phenomenology of intelligence, psychic possession and prophetic ecstasy in ancient Mesopotamia / John Z. …”
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