Olympic victor lists and ancient Greek history /
This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed. Oly...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book is a comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed. Olympic victor lists emerge as a clearly defined type of literature that is best understood as a group of closely related texts. This book offers a fresh perspective on works by familiar writers such as Diodorus Siculus and a sense of the potential importance of less-well-known authors such as Phlegon of Tralleis. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9780511480256 0511480253 9780511550966 0511550960 |