The papers in this volume were presented at an international conference organised in Athens (May 11-14, 2004) and focus on the study of the Panathenaic Games, a Panhellenic athletic event that lasted for nearly a millennium. An international assembly of archaeologists, art historians, ancient historians, epigraphists and classical scholars contributed to the discussion of the origins and the historical development of the Panathenaic Games in general and of individual contests in particular. The role of royal and other patrons in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as well as the form and meaning of victory dedications and other monuments generated by the games were also examined, making this a truly interdisciplinary study into this fascinating event. Two papers are in Greek.

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Olga Palagia and Alkestis Choremi-Spetsieri
• Panathenaic amphoras
• Panathenaic prizes and dedications
• Gods and athletic games
• Replicating tradition: the first celebrations of the Greater Panathenaia
• Games at the lesser Panathenaia?
• The iconography of the Athenian apobates race: origins, meanings, transformation
• Torch race and vase-painting
• A unique new depiction of a Panathenaic victor
• Panathenaic prize amphorae from the Kerameikos: some new aspects and results
• “Not that the vases are easy to interpret...” Some thoughts on Panathenaic prize amphorae
• Λευκοί παναθηναϊκοί αμφορείς και μουσικοί αγώνες
• “Choregic” or victory monuments of the tribal Panathenaic contests
• Δραματικοί αγώνες και αρχιτεκτονική στη νότια κλιτύ της Ακροπόλεως
• Royal Athenians: the Ptolemies and Attalids at the Panathenaia
• The Panathenaic stadium from the Hellenistic to the Roman period: Panathenaic prize-amphorae and the Biel throne
• Athens and Herculaneum: the case of the Panathenaic Athenas
• Colourr Plates