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    Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History by Christesen, Paul;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 22 October 2007

    • ISBN 9780521866347
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages600 pages
    • Size 229x152x38 mm
    • Weight 1050 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists, their origins, development, content, and structure.

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    Long description:

    This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed. Olympic victor lists emerge as a clearly defined type of literature that is best understood as a group of closely related texts. This book offers a fresh perspective on works by familiar writers such as Diodorus Siculus and a sense of the potential importance of less-well-known authors such as Phlegon of Tralleis.

    As a work of scholarship, the book is impressively thorough...For a student or scholar who ishes to wade into the murky waters of ancient chronography, Christesen provides a challenging, but on the whole useful, guide." --New England Classical Journal

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    Table of Contents:

    1. An introduction to Olympic victor lists; 2. Hippias of Elis and the first Olympic victor list; 3. Olympionikon Anangraphai and standard catalogs of Olympic victors; 4. Olympiad chronographies; 5. Olympiad chronicles; 6. Conclusion.

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