The Ancient Olympics

by: Spivey, N.

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

The ancient Olympics

Author:Nigel Jonathan Spivey

Summary:The word "athletics" is derived from the Greek verb "to struggle or to suffer for a prize." As Nigel Spivey reveals in this engaging account of the Olympics in ancient Greece, "suffer" is putting it mildly. Indeed, the Olympics were not so much a graceful display of Greek beauty as a war fought by other means. Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were--fierce contexts between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. Victory was almost worth dying for, the author notes, and a number of athletes did just that. Many more resorted to cheating and bribery. Contested always bitterly and often bloodily, the ancient Olympics were no an idealistic celebration of unity, but a clash of military powers in an arena not far removed from the battlefield. The author explores what the events were, the rules for competitors, training and diet, the pervasiveness of cheating and bribery, the prizes on offer, the exclusion of "barbarians," and protocols on pederasty. He also peels back the mythology surrounding the games today and investigates where our current conception of the Olympics has come from and how the Greek notions of beauty and competitiveness have influenced our modern culture. As a Cambridge classicist and athletics coach, Nigel Spivey is uniquely qualified to write this eye-opening account of the Greek Olympics. Anyone interested in the ancient world or in the Olympic games will be fascinated by this revealing history.

xxi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Contents:
'War minus the shooting'
In training for beautiful goodness
The programme of agony
Sweet victory
The politics of contest
Olympia: the origins
Olympia: the afterlife

Subjects:
Antiquité
Geschichte 776 v. Chr.-393
Greece Social life and customs
Griechenland
Griekse oudheid
Histoire
History
Jeux Olympiques
Jeux olympiques de l'Antiquité Histoire
Olympic games (Ancient)
Olympic games (Ancient) History
Olympische Spelen
Olympische Spiele
Soziologie
Sports Greece

Die Vasen der Sammlung des Grafen Franz I. von Erbach zu Erbach

by: Heenes, V.

• ISBN-13: 9783931705206 / 978-3-931705-20-6
• ISBN-03: 393170520X / 3-931705-20-X
• Syndikat, Mannheim und Bodenheim, 1998

Price: 34,00 EURO

(in stock)

The Ancient Olympics

by: Spivey, N.

• ISBN-13: 9780192804334 / 978-0-19-280433-4
• ISBN-03: 0192804332 / 0-19-280433-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Il Pittore di Afrodite

by: Greco, E.

• Museo del Sannio, , 1970

Price: 38,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

Colloquium Anatolicum VI

by: Peker, H.

• ISBN-13: 9789759250751 / 978-975-92507-5-1
• ISBN-03: 9759250756 / 975-92507-5-6
• Turkish Institute of Archaeology, Istanbul, 2007

Price: 30,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

From 8000 BC to 2000 BC: Six Thousand Years of the Burdur-Antalya Region

by: Duru, R.

• ISBN-13: 9786050027020
• Suna & Inan Kirac Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations, Antalya, 2008

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum The Netherlands, Fascicule 11. Amsterdam, Fascicule 5. Attic Black-Figure Amphorae, Pelikai, Kraters, Hydriai, Olpai, Oinochoai, and Tripod Kothon

by: Borgers, O.E. Brijder, H.A.G.

• ISBN-13: 9789071211423 / 978-90-71211-42-3
• ISBN-03: 9071211428 / 90-71211-42-8
• , Amsterdam, 2007

The Theseus Painter: Style, Shapes and Iconography

by: Borgers, O.E.

• ISBN-13: 9789071211416
• ISBN-03: 907121141X
• Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 2007

A Mudbrick City Wall at Hattusa: Diary of a Reconstruction

by: Seeher, J.

• ISBN-13: 9789758071955
• Ege Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2007

Collected Papers on Greek Colonization

by: Graham, A.J.

• ISBN-13: 9789004116344 / 978-90-04-11634-4
• ISBN-03: 9004116346 / 90-04-11634-6
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 2001