Greek athletics in the Roman world : victory and virtue / Zahra Newby.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representationPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps, plansContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9781429470902
- 1429470909
- 9780191515576
- 0191515574
- 9786610758197
- 6610758190
- GV573
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | GV573 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn138645808 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Introduction : Greeks, Romans, and athletics in the Roman world -- 2. Greek athletics in the heart of Rome -- 3. Visualizing athletics in the Roman baths -- 4. Idealized statues in Roman villas -- 5. Training warriors : the merits of a physical education -- 6. The Athenian Ephebeia : performing the past -- 7. Olympia and Pausanias' construction of Greece -- 8. Gymnasia, festivals, and euergetism in Asia minor -- 9 . Conclusions.
Includes information on Athens, baths, boxing, Capitoline games at Rome, crowns, discus thrower statue, festivals, Gaul, gymnasium, Hadrian, Heracles, homoeroticism, identity, Myron, Nero, Olympic games, Ostia, Pausanias, Philostratus, Polycletius, Pomeii, Rome, sculpture, Sparta, theatre, victory statues, villas, et cetera.
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