Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece write by Zinon Papakonstantinou. This book was released on 2019-04-24. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of the process of identity construction through sport. Chapters discuss elite identities and sport, sport spectatorship, the regulatory framework of Greek sport, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.
Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece
Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece write by Zinon Papakonstantinou. This book was released on 2019. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport.
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece
Sport and Society in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport and Society in Ancient Greece write by Mark Golden. This book was released on 1998-09-10. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.
Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece
Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece write by Mireille M. Lee. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Body, Dress, and Identity in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first general monograph on ancient Greek dress in English to be published in more than a century. By applying modern dress theory to the ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece. Whereas many scholars have focused on individual aspects of ancient Greek dress, from the perspectives of literary, visual, and archaeological sources, this volume synthesizes the diverse evidence and offers fresh insights into this essential aspect of ancient society. Intended to be accessible to nonspecialists as well as classicists, and students as well as academic professionals, this book will find a wide audience.
Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece
Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece write by Eleni Fournaraki. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical antiquity in modern sport, spectacle and bodily culture. For citizens of the Greek nation-state, classical antiquity is not merely a vague "legacy" but the cornerstone of their national identity. In the field of sport and bodily culture, since the 1830s there had been persistent attempts to establish firm and direct links between ancient Greek athletics and modern sport through the incorporation of sport in school curricula, the emergence of national sport historiographies as well as the initiatives to revive (in the 19th century) or appropriate (in the 20th) the modern Olympics. Based on fieldwork and unpublished material sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class identities, and illuminate aspects of the complex modern perceptions of classicism, sport and the body. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
