Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire
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USDGreek athletics flourished more in the Roman empire than ever before. Jason König 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.
- Sets out neglected evidence for athletic festivals and competitions in the Roman Empire
- Offers major new readings on a wide range of Greek and Roman authors
- Explores athletics in the context of a broader cultural debate
Reviews & endorsements
"...Until this book no scholar has studied the body of literature related to athletics in the Roman imperial period...This is a fresh and provocative study and one that begs for similar synchronic analyses of athletically related ancient texts...Konig's work is hugely welcome, and a stimulus for further projects." --Phoenix : Journal of the Classical Association of Canada.
Product details
May 2005Hardback
9780521838450
420 pages
229 × 152 × 27 mm
0.79kg
12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lucian and Anacharsis: gymnasion education in the Greek city
- 3. Models for virtue: Dio's Melankomas and the athletic body
- 4. Pausanias and Olympic panhellenism
- 5. Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome
- 6. Athletes and doctors: Galen's agonistic medicine
- 7. Philostratus' Gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body
- Conclusion.
