Olympic Victor Lists And Ancient Greek History
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Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
Author | : Paul Christesen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2007-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139466233 |
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This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed.
The Ancient Olympics
Author | : Nigel Spivey |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191655418 |
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The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. Victory was almost worth dying for, and a number of athletes did just that. Many more resorted to cheating and bribery. Contested always bitterly and often bloodily, the ancient Olympics were not an idealistic celebration of unity, but a clash of military powers in an arena not far removed from the battlefield.
A Brief History of the Olympic Games
Author | : David C. Young |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780470777756 |
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For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
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.
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Author | : Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444339529 |
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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
Author | : Zinon Papakonstantinou |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781317989493 |
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Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games. In recent years, the continuous re-assessment of old and new evidence in conjunction with the development of new methodological perspectives have created the need for a fresh examination of central aspects of ancient sport in a single volume. This book fills that gap in ancient sport scholarship. When did the ancient Olympics begin? How is sport depicted in the work of the fifth-century historian Herodotus? What was the association between sport and war in fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens? What were the social and political implications of the practice of Greek-style sport in third-century BC Ptolemaic Egypt? How were Roman gladiatorial shows perceived and transformed in the Greek-speaking east? And what were the conditions of sport participation by boys and girls in ancient Rome? These are some of the questions that this book, written by an international cast of distinguished scholars on ancient sport, attempts to answer. Covering a wide chronological and geographical scope (ancient Mediterranean from the early first millennium BC to fourth century AD), individual articles re-examine old and new evidence, and offer stimulating, original interpretations of key aspects of ancient sport in its political, military, cultural, social, ceremonial and ideological setting. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Olympic Victor Monuments and Greek Athletic Art
Author | : Walter Woodburn Hyde |
Publsiher | : Washington, Carnegie Inst. |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : ART |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105019708671 |
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While today's Olympic victors are awarded with the iconic gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals, Olympic champions in the ancient Greek world were memorialized in monuments erected at Olympia and elsewhere. In this 1921 volume, Walter Woodburn Hyde provides a thorough study of statues and other works of art completed in honor of Olympic victors, examining the general characteristics of victor statues found in Olympia and other Greek sites, the features of victor statues represented at rest, and the elements of victor statues represented in motion (think the famous "Discus Thrower.") For art historians, historians of ancient Greece or anyone just curious about the perks of being a famous athlete in the ancient Greek world, this richly illustrated work offers an interesting look at this little-known aspect of the ancient Greek Olympics.
Early Greek Portraiture
Author | : Catherine M. Keesling |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2017-05-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781107162235 |
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This book lends new insight into the origins of civic honorific portraits that emerged at the end of the fifth century BC in ancient Greece.