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Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004097599
Author : Stephen Gaylord Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780300115291
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.
Author : D.G. Kyle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004276629
This book presents new insights into the relationship between governors and provincial subjects in the Later Roman Empire. Discussion of provincial expectations and perception, the continuous dialogue, interdependence and reciprocity leads to a better understanding of Late Roman provincial administration.
Author : Mark Golden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521497909
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.
Author : Charles H. Stocking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,65 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198839596
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."
Author : Alan Beale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521138205
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.
Author : Waldo E. Sweet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0195041267
Intended for readers at all levels--from student to classics buff to serious scholar--this sourcebook looks at sport and recreation in ancient Greece through vivid new translations of contemporary accounts. Covering such diverse topics as the ancient Olympic games, athletic attire, women in sports, hunting and fishing, and weight lifting, the book provides an excellent springboard for the study of ancient Greek history and classical literature. The book includes study questions after each translated passage and a rich assortment of photographs of ancient art and artifacts depicting players, events, and equipment.
Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2019-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1317051122
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.
Author : Thomas F. Scanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195348767
Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles, and the construction of sexuality. Eros was, from one perspective, a major god of the gymnasium where homoerotic liaisons reinforced the traditional hierarchies of Greek culture. But Eros in the athletic sphere was also a symbol of life-affirming friendship and even of political freedom in the face of tyranny. Greek athletic culture was not so much a field of dreams as a field of desire, where fervent competition for honor was balanced by cooperation for common social goals. Eros and Greek Athletics is the first in-depth study of Greek body culture as manifest in its athletics, sexuality, and gender formation. In this comprehensive overview, Thomas F. Scanlon explores when and how athletics was linked with religion, upbringing, gender, sexuality, and social values in an evolution from Homer until the Roman period. Scanlon shows that males and females made different uses of the same contests, that pederasty and athletic nudity were fostered by an athletic revolution beginning in the late seventh century B.C., and that public athletic festivals may be seen as quasi-dramatic performances of the human tension between desire and death. Accessibly written and full of insights that will challenge long-held assumptions about ancient sport, Eros and Greek Athletics will appeal to readers interested in ancient and modern sports, religion, sexuality, and gender studies.
Author : David Phillips
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 2003-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1914535227
How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade Greek culture? This collection of fifteen new studies from an international cast took its inspiration from the exceptional Sydney Olympics of 2000. The focus here is on the ancient world, but additionally there is a sophisticated look at how Greek artefacts linked with sport can best be presented to the modern world.