Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
Author: Edward Norman Gardiner
Publisher:
Published: 1910
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13:
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Ancient Greek Athletics
Author: Stephen Gaylord Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780300115291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting 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.
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Author: Mark Golden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-09-10
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780521497909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSport 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.
Greek Athletics
Author: Jason König
Publisher: Edinburgh Readings on the Anci
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780748634903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume aims to make available - for the first time in a coherent and accessible form - a set of core articles for the study of Greek athletics.
Arete
Author: Stephen G. Miller
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004-06-07
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780520931039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Author: Paul Christesen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-07
Total Pages: 692
ISBN-13: 1444339524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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
The Crown Games of Ancient Greece
Author: David Lunt
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2022-04-22
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1682262014
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Athletes, Festivals, and The Crown Games -- Olympia and the Olympian Games -- Nemea and the Nemean Games -- Isthmia and the Isthmian Games -- Delphi and the Pythian Games -- Crowned Champions -- Conclusions.
Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece
Author: Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-24
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1317051122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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.
Athletics in the Ancient World
Author: E. Norman Gardiner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-06-11
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0486147452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise, convincing book emphasizes relationship between Greek and Roman athletics and religion, art, and education. Colorful descriptions of the pentathlon, foot-race, wrestling, boxing, ball playing, and more. 137 black-and-white illustrations.
The Smell of Sweat
Author: William Blake Tyrrell
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 086516553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of Greek athletics from Homeric times through the fourth century C.E. From the games of the "Iliad, to the foundation of the Olympic games, to the poetry of Pindar and the Olympic Festival, this book covers all aspects of Greek athletics: the events themselves--from the running events held at the first competitions to the later "heavy" events of wrestling, boxing, and the pankration, to the pentathlon, jump, discus, and javelin, held only at festival; the religious and athletic centers; the festivals in which the games took place; the voices of the games' celebrators (like the poet Pindar), critics, and the athletes themselves; the "gyymnasion and its culture; and the evidence--literary, artistic, archeological, and historical. The introduction examines the nineteenth-century bias that created the myth of Greek amateurism. An extensive bibliography aids the reader in pursuing further study.
