Greek Athletics /

Greek Athletics / / Jason König.

Athletic training and athletic competition were key features of ancient Greek life for more than 1,000 years, from the foundation of the Olympic festival in the eighth century BC into the Roman period. Recent years have seen an enormous growth in scholarship on the subject, and in undergraduate teac...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
König, Jason,
MitwirkendeR:
Fisher, Nick,
Gauthier, Philippe,
Kurke, Leslie,
Kyle, Donald G.,
Lämmer, Manfred,
Morgan, Catherine,
Newby, Zahra,
Nijf, Onno Van,
Pleket, H. W.,
Robert, Louis,
Young, David,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World : ERAW
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 6 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note to the Reader
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Ancient Greek athletics: an Introduction
  • PART I Olympia, the Periodos and Panhellenism
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1 Sanctuaries, the State and the Individual
  • 2 The So-Called Olympic Peace in ancient Greece
  • PART II Gymnasion Education
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 3 Gymnasia and the Democratic Values of Leisure
  • 4 Notes on the Role of the Gymnasion in the Hellenistic City
  • PART III Festival Foundations
  • Introduction to Part III
  • 5 Opening address: Eighth International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
  • 6 Two Greek athletic Contests in Rome
  • PART IV Competition and victory
  • Introduction to Part IV
  • 7 Games, Prizes, athletes and Ideology: some aspects of the history of sport in the Greco-Roman world
  • 8 Athletics, Festivals and Greek Identity in the Roman East
  • PART V: Athletic Representations
  • Introduction to Part V
  • 9 The Economy of kudos
  • 10 Greek athletics as Roman Spectacle: The Mosaics from Ostia and Rome
  • PART VI Greek Athletics and the Modern World
  • Introduction to Part VI
  • 11 First with the Most: Greek athletic Records and ‘Specialisation’
  • 12 E. Norman Gardiner and the Decline of Greek Sport
  • Guide to Further Reading
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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