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.
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