Ancient History magazine 5 Theme: Competing for the Gods

Theme: Competing for the Gods

• Murray Dahm, 'The four crown games - Competing for the gods'.
• Sidney Dean, 'The origins of the Pythian Games - Victory laps'.
• Gareth Williams, 'Pindar's victory odes - Second to none'.
• Jordan Henderson, 'Theagenes of Thasos and Kleitomachos of Thebes - Isthmian Brawlers'.
• Stefanos Skarmintzos, 'Reconstructing the armed race of Nemea - The Hoplite race'.
• Manolis Peponas, 'An inscription from Rhodes - A look at local competitions'.
• Nicola Bergamo, 'The Olympian Games of Antioch - Perpetual holiday'.

Features:

• Jona Lendering, 'The Lacoon group - Agony'.
• Andrei Pogacias, 'Ovid in exile - Between arrows and ice'.
• Boed Marres, 'The first fruits of DNA-research - A new window on antiquity'.
• Marc DeSantis, 'Puzzling over the Indo-European enigma - Ancient origins'.
• Kees Alders, 'A competition of soberness - The philosophy of Zeno'.
• Christian Koepfer, 'How do we know - How to date wood'.
• Book reviews