Athletics in the Hellenistic World (eBook)

Christian Mann, Sofie Remijsen, Sebastian Scharff (Herausgeber)

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2016
366 Seiten
Franz Steiner Verlag
978-3-515-11588-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the first e-book on athletics in the Hellenistic era, with 16 contributions covering a range of historical, archaeological and philological perspectives. Previous scholarship has focused primarily on the classical age and the Roman imperial period, but it was in the Hellenistic age that Greek sport saw several important developments: the spread of Greek athletic culture in the East following the campaigns of Alexander the Great, the foundation of new athletic contests, and the emergence of a professional association of athletes. Topics discussed in this volume include how agonistic victories were exploited in legitimating (some) Hellenistic kings, the value placed on athletic prowess in the lively urban culture of this time, the role of sport in defining Greek identity, and the changing modes of representation of athletic action in literature and the arts. In emphasizing the central place of athletics in Greek culture, these papers offer new insights and will have far-reaching implications for our understanding of the wider political and social history of the Hellenistic period.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Preface 8
Abstracts 10
Christian Mann: Sport im Hellenismus: Forschungsstand und Forschungsperspektiven 18
Thomas Heine Nielsen: Reflections on the Number of Athletic Festivals in Pre-hellenistic Greece 32
Onno M. van Nijf – Christina G. Williamson: Connecting the Greeks: Festival Networks in the Hellenistic World 44
Bram Fauconnier:Athletes and Artists in an Expanding World. The Development ofEcumenical Associations of Competitors in the First Century BC 74
Zinon Papakonstantinou:The Hellenistic Agonothesia: Finances, Ideology, Identities 96
Elena Franchi:Sport and War in Hellenistic Sparta 114
Marianne Mathys:Athleten im Gymnasion von Pergamon 132
Antiopi Argyriou-Casmeridis:Victories and Virtues:The Epigraphic Evidence for Hellenistic Athletes as Models of arete 154
Kathrin Weber:Athletendarstellungen in der hellenistischen Grabkunst –Überlegungen zum Stellenwert der Athletenrolle in der Polisgesellschaft 180
Sebastian Scharff:Das Pferd Aithon, die Skopaden und die ?????? ????????.Zur Selbstdarstellung hippischer Sieger aus Thessalien im Hellenismus 210
Frank Daubner:Agone im hellenistischen Nordgriechenland 232
Stephen Sansom:Contests and Clothing in Four Agonistic Papyri from Hellenistic Egypt 248
Barbara Dimde:Inszenierung von Läufern oder laufende Inszenierung –Stadien und Startvorrichtungen in hellenistischer Zeit 264
Florian Klauser:Zur Aufstellungspraxis von Standbildern siegreicher Athletenin Athen in hellenistischer Zeit 290
Leonardo Cazzadori:Callimachus on Agones and Athletes 316
Lukas Kainz:“We are the Best, We are One, and We are Greeks!”Reflections on the Ptolemies’ Participation in the agones 332
Index 356

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch; deutsch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Alte Geschichte • Archäologie • Epigraphik • Hellenismus • Papyrologie • Sport
• ISBN-10: 3-515-11588-9 / 3515115889
• ISBN-13: 978-3-515-11588-9 / 9783515115889