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From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting new readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds new light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some of the ways in which athletic activity was represented within different texts and contexts. Most importantly, the book shows how discussion and representation of athletics could become entangled with many other areas of cultural debate, and used as a vehicle for many different varieties of authorial self-presentation and cultural self-scrutiny. It also argues for complex connections between different areas of athletic representation, particularly between literary and epigraphical texts. It offers re-interpretations of a number of major authors, especially Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Pausanias, Silius Italicus, Galen and Philostratus.

Athletics in literature --- Athlétisme dans la littérature --- Atletiek in de literatuur --- Track and field athletes --- Athletics in literature. --- Latin literature --- Athlètes --- Sports athlétiques dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- History and criticism. --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Athletics --- Athlètes --- Sports athlétiques dans la littérature --- Littérature latine --- Thèmes, motifs --- Physical education and training --- Sports --- History and criticism

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Athletics in literature --- Athlétisme dans la littérature --- Atletiek in de literatuur --- Games in literature --- Greece in literature --- Griekenland in de literatuur --- Grèce dans la littérature --- Helden in de literatuur --- Heldendom in de literatuur --- Heldhaftigheid in de literatuur --- Heroes in literature --- Heroism in literature --- Héros dans la littérature --- Héroïsme dans la littérature --- Jeux et récréations dans la littérature --- Spelen in de literatuur --- Laudatory poetry, Greek --- Odes, Greek --- Greek odes --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism --- Pindar --- Pindare --- Píndaro --- Pindaros --- Characters --- Heroes. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Greece --- In literature. --- Pindarus --- Criticism and interpretation --- Laudatory poetry [Greek ] --- Odes --- Heroes --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος

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A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and to circumstances of the victory. The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion . The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style.

Athletics in literature --- Athlétisme dans la littérature --- Atletiek in de literatuur --- Games in literature --- Greek mythology in literature --- Griekse mythologie in de literatuur --- Jeux et récréations dans la littérature --- Mythologie [Griekse ] in de literatuur --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Mythology [Greek ] in literature --- Spelen in de literatuur --- Laudatory poetry, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Lyric poetry --- Athletics --- Poésie élogieuse grecque --- Poésie lyrique --- Sports athlétiques --- History and criticism --- Poetry --- Histoire et critique --- Poésie --- Pindar --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aegina Island (Greece) --- Egine (Grèce : Ile) dans la littérature --- In literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Odes, Greek --- Athletics in literature. --- Games in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -875 PINDARUS --- Odes --- -Lyric poetry --- Greek laudatory poetry --- Greek poetry --- Griekse literatuur--PINDARUS --- -Pindar --- Pindarus --- Pindare --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος --- Criticism and interpretation --- -In literature --- Pindar. --- In literature. --- -History and criticism --- 875 PINDARUS Griekse literatuur--PINDARUS --- -Greek laudatory poetry --- Píndaro --- Pindaros --- Poésie élogieuse grecque --- Mythologie grecque dans la littérature --- Poésie lyrique --- Sports athlétiques --- Poésie --- Egine (Grèce : Ile) dans la littérature --- 875 PINDARUS --- Greek odes --- Aigina Island (Greece) --- Dímos Aíginas (Greece) --- Egina (Greece : Municipality) --- Engia (Greece : Municipality) --- Nísos Aígina (Greece) --- Nísos Aíyina (Greece) --- Αίγινα (Greece : Municipality) --- Laudatory poetry [Greek ] --- Laudatory poetry, Greek. --- Literature. --- Odes, Greek. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Nemean odes (Pindar) --- Pythian odes (Pindar) --- Pythia (Pindarus) --- Pythionikai (Pindar) --- Pythionikoi tou Pindarou (Pindar) --- Pindarou Epinikoi Nemeonikais (Pindar) --- Epinikoi Nemeonikais (Pindar) --- Nemean odes of Pindar (Pindar) --- Aigina (Greece : Municipality) --- Greece --- Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism. --- Odes, Greek - History and criticism.