Greek athletics in the Roman world : victory and virtue /
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 s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.