Sport And Identity In Ancient Greece
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Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece
Author | : Zinon Papakonstantinou |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2019-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317051121 |
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From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of the process of identity construction through sport. Chapters discuss elite identities and sport, sport spectatorship, the regulatory framework of Greek sport, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Author | : Mark Golden |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1998-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521497906 |
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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.
Sport Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece
Author | : Eleni Fournaraki,Zinon Papakonstantinou |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317979739 |
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Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical antiquity in modern sport, spectacle and bodily culture. For citizens of the Greek nation-state, classical antiquity is not merely a vague "legacy" but the cornerstone of their national identity. In the field of sport and bodily culture, since the 1830s there had been persistent attempts to establish firm and direct links between ancient Greek athletics and modern sport through the incorporation of sport in school curricula, the emergence of national sport historiographies as well as the initiatives to revive (in the 19th century) or appropriate (in the 20th) the modern Olympics. Based on fieldwork and unpublished material sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class identities, and illuminate aspects of the complex modern perceptions of classicism, sport and the body. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Greek Sport and Social Status
Author | : Mark Golden |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780292778955 |
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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.
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.
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
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."
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.