Ancient Greek Athletics

Ancient Greek Athletics
Author: Stephen Gaylord Miller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: 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.

The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity

The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity
Author: Sofie Remijsen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107050782

A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport

Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport
Author: David Sansone
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1992-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520913325

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

Ancient Greek Athletics
Author: Charles H. Stocking
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2021
Genre: 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."

Greek Athletics in the Roman World

Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Author: Zahra Newby
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2005-10-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191515574

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.

Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals

Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals
Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0226155498

Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and that both demand more substantive attention, Daniel Dombrowski harnesses the insights of ancient Greek thinkers to illuminate contemporary athletics. Dombrowski contends that the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus shed important light on issues—such as the pursuit of excellence, the concept of play, and the power of accepting physical limitations while also improving one’s body—that remain just as relevant in our sports-obsessed age as they were in ancient Greece. Bringing these concepts to bear on contemporary concerns, Dombrowski considers such questions as whether athletic competition can be a moral substitute for war, whether it necessarily constitutes war by other means, and whether it encourages fascist tendencies or ethical virtue. The first volume to philosophically explore twenty-first-century sport in the context of its ancient predecessor, Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals reveals that their relationship has great and previously untapped potential to inform our understanding of human nature.

Greek Athletics

Greek Athletics
Author: Jason König
Publisher: Edinburgh Readings on the Anci
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780748634903

This 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.

Greek Athletics

Greek Athletics
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1925
Genre: Art, Greek
ISBN:

Greek Athletics in the Roman World

Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Author: Zahra Newby
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2005-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199279306

Exploring a key area of Greek culture as it developed under Rome and the Second Sophistic, this work investigates questions of how identity is constructed through a cultural appropriation of the past.