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Author |
: Stephen Gaylord Miller |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2004-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300115296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300115291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Athletics by : Stephen Gaylord Miller
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 |
: David Sansone |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 1992-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520913329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520913325 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by : David Sansone
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 |
: Sofie Remijsen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 409 |
Release |
: 2015-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107050785 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107050782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of Greek Athletics in Late Antiquity by : Sofie Remijsen
A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Author |
: Charles H. Stocking |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198839590 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198839596 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ancient Greek Athletics by : Charles H. Stocking
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 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191515576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191515574 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Athletics in the Roman World by : Zahra Newby
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 |
: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 36 |
Release |
: 1925 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010405061 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Athletics by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Author |
: Thomas F. Scanlon |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2002-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195348767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195348761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eros and Greek Athletics by : Thomas F. Scanlon
Ancient Greek athletics offer us a clear window on many important aspects of ancient culture, some of which have distinct parallels with modern sports and their place in our society. Ancient athletics were closely connected with religion, the formation of young men and women in their gender roles, and the construction of sexuality. Eros was, from one perspective, a major god of the gymnasium where homoerotic liaisons reinforced the traditional hierarchies of Greek culture. But Eros in the athletic sphere was also a symbol of life-affirming friendship and even of political freedom in the face of tyranny. Greek athletic culture was not so much a field of dreams as a field of desire, where fervent competition for honor was balanced by cooperation for common social goals. Eros and Greek Athletics is the first in-depth study of Greek body culture as manifest in its athletics, sexuality, and gender formation. In this comprehensive overview, Thomas F. Scanlon explores when and how athletics was linked with religion, upbringing, gender, sexuality, and social values in an evolution from Homer until the Roman period. Scanlon shows that males and females made different uses of the same contests, that pederasty and athletic nudity were fostered by an athletic revolution beginning in the late seventh century B.C., and that public athletic festivals may be seen as quasi-dramatic performances of the human tension between desire and death. Accessibly written and full of insights that will challenge long-held assumptions about ancient sport, Eros and Greek Athletics will appeal to readers interested in ancient and modern sports, religion, sexuality, and gender studies.
Author |
: John Alexander Daulat |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2020-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798644009220 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The First Physical Culturists: Ancient Greek Athletics, Training and Competition by : John Alexander Daulat
Physical culture can be regarded as a philosophy, regimen or lifestyle aiming to achieve maximum physical development by exercise, diet and athletic competition. The ancient Greeks were the first to cultivate their bodies to achieve the ideal physique and use physical culture as a form of preventative medicine. This fascinating book highlights how physical culture through exercise and athletics was a fundamental aspect of ancient Greece. This book revisits some of the commonly known aspects of ancient Greece, the Olympic Games and exercise techniques comparing with modern training principles. A unique fusion of sport history and science providing the reader with a detailed knowledge of how to apply these principles to their own exercise training regimen.The lessons found in the history of the world's best athletes are as relevant now as they were during the time of the first Olympic games. Alex Daulat's inviting and informative approach offers insight into ancient exercise, diet, and healthy-living techniques and how it can be applied to modern health and wellness plans. It's often nonfiction that makes history riveting, and The First Physical Culturists is a great must-read book for every history buff and fitness guru.
Author |
: Alan Beale |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 201 |
Release |
: 2011-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521138208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521138205 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Athletics and the Olympics by : Alan Beale
An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
Author |
: Daniel A. Dombrowski |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 175 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226155494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226155498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals by : Daniel A. Dombrowski
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.