Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World

by: Phillips, D. Pritchard, D.

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 This collection of sixteen thematically linked articles was inspired by the Sydney Olympic Games of 2000. Its international cast includes leading authorities in the study of ancient Greek sport. It considers how sport and festival affected the ancient Greek city and how the values of athletics pervaded Greek culture. To accompany the main focus, on the ancient world, the book examines allied topics of modern culture, such as the sometimes troubled relationship between research on ancient Greek sport and the modern Olympic movement, and the question of how museums may best present to a modern public the surviving Greek artifacts linked with sport.

How did sport and festival affect the ancient Greek city? How did the values of athletics pervade Greek culture? This collection of fifteen new studies from an international cast took its inspiration from the exceptional Sydney Olympics of 2000. The focus here is on the ancient world, but additionally there is a look at how Greek artefacts linked with sport can best be presented to the modern world

Contents:
The organization and functioning of the Olympic games / Stephen Miller
The German excavations at Olympia / Helmut Kyrieleis
Elis and Olympia : city, sanctuary and politics / Nigel B. Crowther
Victory statue, victory song : Pindar's agonistic poetics and its legacy / Patrick O'Sullivan
Olympia and the chariot-race of Pelops / John Davidson
Homer, funeral contests and the origins of the Greek city / Ben Brown
The politics of dance : dithyrambic contest and social order in ancient Greece / Peter Wilson
Athenian political history : a panathanaic perspective / David J. Phillips
The Parthenon frieze as an idealized, contemporary panathenaic festival / Tom Stevenson
The curious matter of the Leneia festival of 422 BC / Ian C. Storey
Athletics, education and participatino in classical Athens / David Pritchard
Athletics, competition and the intellectual / Harold Tarrant
1000 years of the Olympic games : treasures of ancient Greece, the Powerhouse Museum exhibition / Paul Donnelly and Kevin Fewster
VROOM (Virtual reconstruction of Olympia model) : the creation of a virtual tour frmo a digital model / Kate da Costa, Sarah Kenderdine, Cliff Ogleby, and John Ristevski
1000 years of the Olympic games : treasures of ancient Greece : a study of audiences and impact / Carol Scott

xxxi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
 

Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World

by: Phillips, D. Pritchard, D.

• ISBN-13: 9780954384517 / 978-0-9543845-1-7
• ISBN-03: 0954384512 / 0-9543845-1-2
• The Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2003

Price: 95,00 EURO

1 copy in stock