Greek Athletics in the Roman World
Victory and Virtue
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 October 2005
- ISBN 9780199279302
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 254x196x23 mm
- Weight 849 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 pp colour plates, numerous halftones and line drawings 0
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Short description:
The Greeks' fascination with athletics in the gymnasium and festivals such as the Olympic Games is well known. However, athletic training and festivals continued to thrive during the Roman period. This book looks at the art associated with Greek athletics to see what it meant to both Greeks and Romans during the period of the Roman Empire. It argues that athletics continued to act as a crucial sign of Greek identity as well as providing new forms of leisure activities for the citizens of Rome.
MoreLong description:
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.
...a valuable contribution not only to the study of athletics but more importantly to our understanding of Greek cultural identity during the Empire
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Greeks, Romans, and Athletics in the Roman World
I. Athletics in the Roman West
Greek Athletics in the Heart of Rome
Visualizing Athletics in the Roman Baths
Idealized Statues in Roman Villas
II. Athletics and Identity in the Greek East
Training Warriors: The Merits of a Physical Education
The Athenian Ephebeia: Performing the Past
Olympia and Pausanias' Construction of Greece
Gymnasia, Festivals, and Euergetism in Asia MInor
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