[{"id":97021,"title":"Οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες Ολυμπιονίκες","subtitle":"1169 χρόνια ολυμπιακής δόξας από το 776 π.Χ. έως το 393 μ.Χ.: 1.000 'Ελληνες ολυμπιονίκες από Ευρώπη, Ασία, Αφρική: Βιογραφικά, άθλοι, αγωνίσματα και οι πόλεις καταγωγής τους","description":"[...] Κυρηναϊκή, Μεγάλη Ελλάδα, Πόντος, Λυδία, Λυκία, Μυσία και γενικότερα όλη η Μικρά Ασία είναι περιοχές που επί αιώνες ανθούσε το ελληνικό στοιχείο. Επί χιλιάδες χρόνια στην Μεγάλη Ελλάδα, επί χιλιάδες χρόνια στην Μικρά Ασία και τον Πόντο, το ίδιο και στην Κυρηναϊκή· και όσα υπολείμματα γλωσσικά ή εθνολογικά βρίσκονται σήμερα στους τόπους εκείνους, είναι για να μας θυμίζουν την δόξα της Αιώνιας Ελλάδας, που δεν θα σβήση ποτέ.\u003cbr\u003eΤο βιβλίο λοιπόν τούτο, αυτό το μήνυμα θέλει να περάσει. Την τεράστια διάδοση του Ελληνικού πνεύματος και την εξάπλωση των Ελληνικών πληθυσμών στις τρεις Ηπείρους του πλανήτη, που μέσα από τους Ολυμπιακούς αγώνες έδιναν στα νιάτα της Ελλάδος παγκοσμίως τη δυνατότητα να συνέρχωνται κάθε τέσσερα χρόνια στην Ιεράν Άλτιν και να θυμούνται το όμαιμον, το ομόγλωσσον και το ομόθρησκον, με λίγα λόγια την σύνθεση των στοιχείων εκείνων που τους έκαναν περήφανους επειδή ήταν Έλληνες. [...] (από τον πρόλογο του εκδότη)","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b99543.jpg","isbn":"960-88034-4-6","isbn13":"978-960-88034-4-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":383,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"23.0","price_updated_at":"2005-10-14","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1582,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":99543,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/oi-arxaioi-ellhnes-olympionikes.json"},{"id":178099,"title":"Olympica Hippica","subtitle":"Horses, Men and Women in the Ancient Olympics","description":"'The jockey of Artemision' (keles)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe composite statue was part or a ship's cargo found by Ishermen of Skiathos near the Euboic peninsula of Artemision in 1930. The site is renowned from the sea battle of the Greek leet (with 200 ships) against the Persian (over 2,000 ships) in 480 BCE. Underwater searchers discovered these two Statues separated, but is almost certain that the horse and the young boy were part of the same masterpiece we see today at the Athens Archaeological Museum. The young anabates [jockey] held the horse's reins in his left and a kentron [goad] in his right hand which is raised to prompt the animal. As for the horse, it seems to make an extreme elort as if jumping over an obstacle, which might have served to stabilize the statue. In general, this bronze is among the best and most original works of the second century BCE. It relects the zenith reached by Greek sculptors during the Hellenistic period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Tiryns Ladies' (synoris)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFound in the later palace of Tiryns ca. 1300 BCEthe fresco depicts a rare scene of two young ladies driving a synoris (biga). In fact, the girl to the right is driving the chariot and the girl to her left is just a passenger. The 'Pinto' coloration of the horses and the four-spoked wheel, a typical element of Greek chariots, are of particular interest. Horses bearing white spots were called Balios (or Phalios) in Homeric times. In demotic terms they are still called Mpalios, a fact relecting the long continuity of the Greek language. Frescoes resembling this were unknown in Minoan Crete but are seen at later periods (after Mycenae had taken over Crete). The most ancient horse scene found in Greece is a sphragidolith (seal stone) depicting a diphros on an obsidian from Mycenae (c.1600 BCE). A synoris driven by two ladies is also depicted on a sarcophagus from the palace of Agia Triada (c.1400 BCE).\u003cbr\u003e","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b181222.jpg","isbn":"960-88034-5-4","isbn13":"978-960-88034-5-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":284,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"21.0","price_updated_at":"2012-07-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1582,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":181222,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/olympica-hippica.json"}]