Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
(Sprache: Englisch)
Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literature of the period.
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Greek athletics flourished more in the Roman Empire than it ever had before. This book offers an exciting new cultural history of the athletics of that period, setting out neglected evidence for athletic festivals and athletic education. It offers new readings of a wide range of Greek and Latin authors.
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1. Introduction; 2. Lucian and Anacharsis: gymnasion education in the Greek city; 3. Models for virtue: Dio's Melankomas and the athletic body; 4. Pausanias and Olympic panhellenism; 5. Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome; 6. Athletes and doctors: Galen's agonistic medicine; 7. Philostratus' Gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body; Conclusion.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jason König
- 2005, 420 Seiten, Maße: 22,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 0521838452
- ISBN-13: 9780521838450
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Englisch
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