The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics - 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 The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics write by David C. Young. This book was released on 1984. The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Brief History of the Olympic Games
A Brief History of the Olympic Games - 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 A Brief History of the Olympic Games write by David C. Young. This book was released on 2008-04-15. A Brief History of the Olympic Games available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
Greek and Roman Athletics
Greek and Roman Athletics - 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 Greek and Roman Athletics write by Thomas Francis Scanlon. This book was released on 1984. Greek and Roman Athletics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Greek Athletics and the Olympics
Greek Athletics and the Olympics - 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 Greek Athletics and the Olympics write by Alan Beale. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Greek Athletics and the Olympics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
Greek Sport and Social Status
Greek Sport and Social Status - 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 Greek Sport and Social Status write by Mark Golden. This book was released on 2009-09-15. Greek Sport and Social Status available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions.
