Sport And Recreation In Ancient Greece
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Sport And Recreation In Ancient Greece
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Author : Waldo E. Sweet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1987-10-29
Sport And Recreation In Ancient Greece written by Waldo E. Sweet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-10-29 with History categories.
Aimed at readers of all levels--from student to classics buff to serious scholars--this sourcebook looks at sport and recreation in ancient Greece through translated accounts of ancient Greek and Latin authors. It examines such diversions as the ancient Olympic Games, athletic clothing, women in sports, dining, dancing, and fishing. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece offers a wide range of topics geared to students' interests, new translations into readable English that facilitate their introduction to the subject, and a rich assortment of illustrations. The questions following each translation help students understand the passages, while the presentation of contradictory evidence challenges them to evaluate different points of view, both in the study of ancient culture and in their own daily lives. Successfully tested in college classrooms for a ten years, this book provides an excellent springboard for the study of ancient Greek history, classical literature, or sports history.
Sport And Society In Ancient Greece
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Author : Mark Golden
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-09-10
Sport And Society In Ancient Greece written by Mark Golden and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-10 with History categories.
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.
Ancient Greek Athletics
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Author : Charles H. Stocking
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Ancient Greek Athletics written by Charles H. Stocking and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Literary Criticism categories.
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."
Sport Bodily Culture And Classical Antiquity In Modern Greece
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Author : Eleni Fournaraki
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-03
Sport Bodily Culture And Classical Antiquity In Modern Greece written by Eleni Fournaraki and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-03 with History categories.
Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical antiquity in modern sport, spectacle and bodily culture. For citizens of the Greek nation-state, classical antiquity is not merely a vague "legacy" but the cornerstone of their national identity. In the field of sport and bodily culture, since the 1830s there had been persistent attempts to establish firm and direct links between ancient Greek athletics and modern sport through the incorporation of sport in school curricula, the emergence of national sport historiographies as well as the initiatives to revive (in the 19th century) or appropriate (in the 20th) the modern Olympics. Based on fieldwork and unpublished material sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class identities, and illuminate aspects of the complex modern perceptions of classicism, sport and the body. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Sport In The Greek And Roman Worlds
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Author : Thomas Francis Scanlon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Readings in Classical S
Release Date : 2014
Sport In The Greek And Roman Worlds written by Thomas Francis Scanlon and has been published by Oxford Readings in Classical S this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
From the Minoan bull-leaping to the ancient Olympics and the enigmas of their contests, this first volume of Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds contains nine articles and chapters of enduring importance to the study of sport in ancient Greece, a field located at a crucial intersection of social history, archaeology, literature, and other aspects of Greek culture. The studies have been updated with addenda by the original authors, and two of the articles that were originally published in German or French have been translated into English here for the first time. The studies, selected for breadth and importance of historical topics, include: Greek sport in its epic, heroic, and Bronze Age origins; the ancient Olympics in its relation to religion, politics, and diversity of competitors; Greek events in track and field and equestrian events. A companion second volume complements this one with studies on the social and economic aspects of Greek sport, the role of Greek sport in the Roman era, and forms, functions and venues of Roman spectacles. The articles in both volumes offer an excellent starting point to inspire newcomers to the study of ancient sport, and to give students and scholars an informative set of models for present knowledge and future research.
Sport And Festival In The Ancient Greek World
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Author : David Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2003-12-31
Sport And Festival In The Ancient Greek World written by David Phillips and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-31 with History categories.
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.
Greek And Roman Sport
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Author : Don Nardo
language : en
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Release Date : 1999
Greek And Roman Sport written by Don Nardo and has been published by Greenhaven Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Discusses the role of sports in the ancient Greek and Roman world, covering the Olympics, the glories of physical achievement, spectacle sports, horse and chariot racing, and leisure sports.
Athletics And Games Of The Ancient Greeks
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Author : Edward Marwick Plummer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Athletics And Games Of The Ancient Greeks written by Edward Marwick Plummer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Athletics categories.
Athletics In Ancient Athens
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Author : Donald G. Kyle
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1993-01-01
Athletics In Ancient Athens written by Donald G. Kyle and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with History categories.
Sport And Identity In Ancient Greece
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Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-24
Sport And Identity In Ancient Greece written by Zinon Papakonstantinou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-24 with History categories.
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.