Description - Excavations at Nemea by Darice E. Birge
In Classical Antiquity, beginning in 573 BC, Nemea hosted international athletic competitions like those at Olympia, Delphi, and Isthmia; the games at the four sites constituted the Panhellenic cycle and the victors were the most famous athletes of antiquity. Nemea was never a city-state but served as a religious and athletic festival centre where the Greek world assembled every two years under a flag of truce. Excavations sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley since 1974 have revealed many details of Nemea's history. These discoveries, together with ancient literary and epigraphic sources, form the basis of a new and sharply defined picture of the Nemean Games. The first volume in a projected series of nine documents, the excavations of the Sacred Square, the Xenon (Guest House) and the Bath. In the chapter on the Sacred Square, Darice Briggs gives a full publication of the Long Altar of Zeus and other monuments, as well as the first recognized remains of a Sacred Grove from antiquity. Lynn Krayak presents the findings on the Xenon, one of the few ancient hotels to have been recognized and the only one to be fully studied.
Finally, Stephen Miller reports on the Nemean Bath, the earliest Greek bath known. This book presents all of these findings together with associated material such as state plans, photographs and drawings of reconstructed monuments.
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