Two Studies in the History of Ancient Greek Athletics

Thomas Heine Nielsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2018
Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (Verlag)
978-87-7304-412-4 (ISBN)

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Presents two studies in the history of ancient Greek athletics. The first study is a survey of the number of festivals with athletic and equestrian competitions which existed throughout the Greek world in the late Archaic and Classical periods. It demonstrates that athletic festivals were celebrated in far greater numbers than previously assumed.

The second study discusses the symbolic value and prestige of athletic victories achieved at the sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea in the Peloponnese, by focusing on the value attached by victorious athletes and their home communities to such victories and by situating the contests at Nemea in the competitive landscape of late Archaic and Classical Greece delineated in the first study. It concludes that the prestige of a Nemean victory far outshone that of a victory in any of the numerous athletic festivals which did not form a part of the great Big Four: the Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian and Nemean festivals.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2022
Reihe/Serie	Scientia Danica, Series H. Humanistica
Verlagsort	Kobenhavn V
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	87-7304-412-1 / 8773044121
ISBN-13	978-87-7304-412-4 / 9788773044124
Zustand	Neuware