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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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Author | : David C. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
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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.
Author | : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Art, Greek |
ISBN | : |
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.