Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Hardcover)

From the first to third century AD Greek athletics flourished as never before. This book offers exciting readings of those developments. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, it sheds light on practices of athletic competition and athletic education in the Roman Empire. In addition it examines some of the ways in which athletic activity was represented within different texts and contexts. Most importantly, the book shows how discussion and representation of athletics could become entangled with many other areas of cultural debate, and used as a vehicle for many different varieties of authorial self-presentation and cultural self-scrutiny. It also argues for complex connections between different areas of athletic representation, particularly between literary and epigraphical texts. It offers re-interpretations of a number of major authors, especially Lucian, Dio Chrysostom, Pausanias, Silius Italicus, Galen and Philostratus.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Greek Culture in the Roman World
Release date:	April 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Jason Koenig
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-83845-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval
LSN:	0-521-83845-2
Barcode:	9780521838450

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