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Ancient Greek Athletics
Author | : Stephen Gaylord Miller |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0300115296 |
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Presenting a survey of sports in ancient Greece, this work describes ancient sporting events and games. It considers the role of women and amateurs in ancient athletics, and explores the impact of these games on art, literature and politics.
Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
Author | : David Sansone |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1992-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520913329 |
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How is sport in contemporary society related to sport in earlier civilizations? Why is the expenditure of energy involved in sport considered exhilarating, while the equivalent expenditure of energy in other contexts can be dispiriting? David Sansone offers answers to these questions and advances a revolutionary thesis to account for the widespread phenomenon of sport. Drawing upon ethnological findings to demonstrate the ritual character of sport, he explores the relationship between ancient Greek sport and sacrificial ritual and traces elements common to both back to primitive origins.
Ancient Greek Athletics
Author | : Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2021-08-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780192607621 |
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The Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in different historical time periods throughout antiquity.
Greek Athletics and the Olympics
Author | : Alan Beale |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2011-09-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780521138208 |
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An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
Author | : Sofie Remijsen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107050785 |
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A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Ancient Greek Athletics
Author | : Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198839590 |
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Présentation de l'éditeur : "This work presents a collection of texts in translation on ancient athletics in Greek and Roman history, including a wide range of topics from the Olympics to ancient conceptions of health and wellness."
Eros and Greek Athletics
Author | : Thomas Francis Scanlon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195149852 |
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Scanlon's overview of Greek athletics explores when and how athletics was linked with religion, upbringing, gender, sexuality, and social values in an evolution from Homer until the Roman period.
Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Author | : Zahra Newby |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2005-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191515576 |
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The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.