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Greek Athletics in the Roman World - Victory and Virtue (Hardcover)
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Greek Athletics in the Roman World - Victory and Virtue (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation
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The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition
during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject
in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the
impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it
through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against
textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional
picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead,
Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman
spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek, east of the empire
too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a
crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also
accommodating Roman imperial power.
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