Greek Sport and Social Status / / Mark Golden.
From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern...
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Golden, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Greek Sport and Social Status / Mark Golden. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2008 1 online resource (232 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Some Important Dates -- One. Helpers, Horses, and Heroes: Contests over Victory in Ancient Greece -- Two. Slaves and Ancient Greek Sport -- Three. Greek Games and Gladiators -- Four. Olive-Tinted Spectacles: Myths in the Histories of the Ancient and Modern Olympics -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Source Index -- General Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Athletics Social aspects Greece. Athletics Greece History. Sports Social aspects Greece. Sports Greece History. HISTORY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/718692 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292793743 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292793743/original |
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