Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Name: Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
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ISBN: 9780521838450

ISBN-10: 0521838452

ISBN-13: 9780521838450

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jason Kï¿½nig, Susan E. Alcock, Jas' Elsner, Simon Goldhill

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Greek athletics flourished more in the Roman empire than ever before. Jason Knig offers an exciting new cultural history of the athletics of this period, setting out neglected evidence for athletic festivals and athletic education. He also explores the way in which discussion of athletics, a highly controversial subject, could become entangled in wider debates in Greek and Roman culture.

Book details

List price: $152.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 420
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Jason KÃ¶nig is Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews.




Introduction



Lucian and Anacharsis: gymnasion education in the Greek city



Models for virtue: Dio's Melankomas and the athletic body



Pausanias and Olympic panhellenism



Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome



Athletes and doctors: Galen's agonistic medicine



Philostratus' Gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body


Conclusion