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This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed. Olympic victor lists emerge as a clearly defined type of literature that is best understood as a group of closely related texts. This book offers a fresh perspective on works by familiar writers such as Diodorus Siculus and a sense of the potential importance of less-well-known authors such as Phlegon of Tralleis.
Olympic games (Ancient) --- Jeux olympiques de l'Antiquité --- Greece --- Grèce --- History. --- Histoire --- Jeux olympiques antiques --- Athlétisme --- Jeux olympiques de l'Antiquité --- Grèce --- Ancient Olympic games --- Olympics --- Jeux olympiques antiques. --- Arts and Humanities --- History
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This book explores the relationship between sport and democratization. Drawing on sociological and historical methodologies, it provides a framework for understanding how sport affects the level of egalitarianism in the society in which it is played. The author distinguishes between horizontal sport, which embodies and fosters egalitarian relations, and vertical sport, which embodies and fosters hierarchical relations. Christesen also differentiates between societies in which sport is played and watched on a mass scale and those in which it is an ancillary activity. Using ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain as case studies, Christesen analyzes how these variables interact and finds that horizontal mass sport has the capacity to both promote and inhibit democratization at a societal level. He concludes that horizontal mass sport tends to reinforce and extend democratization.
Sports --- Sociology of sports --- Sociology --- History. --- Sociological aspects. --- History --- Sociological aspects --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Arts and Humanities
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"A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire. Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties. Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin. Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers"--
Sports --- History. --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions --- Social conditions. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Conditions sociales --- Field sports --- Pastimes --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Athletics --- Games --- Outdoor life --- Physical education and training --- Social aspects&delete& --- History --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
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Philosophy, Modern. --- Philosophie moderne --- Sparta (Extinct city) --- Sparte (Ville ancienne) --- Civilization. --- Civilisation.
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How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture.For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action.The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past.
Alte Geschichte --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- HISTORY / Social History. --- Historicism. --- Kulturgeschichte --- Historiography. --- To 146 B.C. --- Greece --- Greece. --- Griechenland --- Historiography --- Historicism --- History --- Philosophy --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- E-books --- History. --- Grèce --- Civilisation --- Historiographie
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Examines all aspects of sport over the last 2,800 years : from technological developments to nationalism, from issues of race and gender to violence and eroticism. --
Sports --- History --- Sport --- Culture --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- World history --- Ancient history --- History of Europe --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Sports.
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