Ancient Greek Athletics : Primary Sources in Translation

by: Stocking, C.H. Stephens, S.A.

Price: 32,62 EURO

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Ancient Greek Athletics
Primary Sources in Translation
Charles H. Stocking and Susan A. Stephens
The most comprehensive sourcebook to date on ancient Greek athletics, including previously untranslated texts, epigraphic material, and papyri
Proposes complete textual sources with proper historical contextualization
Offers a chronological arrangement of ancient sources grouped by genre

Description
The Sourcebook of Ancient Greek Athletics offers the most comprehensive collection to date of primary sources in translation for the study of ancient Greek athletics. Because Greek athletics was such an essential feature of both Greek and Roman culture, there is an especially strong need for proper treatment and understanding of the texts and other media used to reconstruct practices and ideologies of ancient athletics. The sources in this collection are arranged chronologically from the Archaic Period to the Roman Imperial Era, with an extensive appendix discussing key themes and topics. The organization and in-depth presentation of textual sources is designed to help students, scholars, and general readers fully appreciate the broader social and cultural significance of ancient Greek athletics as it developed in different historical time periods throughout antiquity.

Table of Contents
TEXTS
1:The Archaic and Early Classical Period
Epic
Victory Odes
Elegy
Epigram
2:The Classical Period
History
Tragedy and Comedy
Hippocratic Corpus
Attic Oratory
Philosophy
3:The Hellenistic Period
4:The Roman Period
Inscriptions
5:Olympia
6:Delphi
7:Sparta
8:Athens
9:Other Significant Inscriptions
Papyri
Appendices
Appendix A: The Athlete in Greek Culture
Appendix B: Sites and Conduct of Festival Games
Appendix C: The Events

Ancient Greek Athletics : Primary Sources in Translation

by: Stocking, C.H. Stephens, S.A.

• ISBN-13: 9780198839606 / 978-0-19-883960-6
• ISBN-03: 019883960X / 0-19-883960-X
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021

Price: 32,62 EURO

(in stock)