Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. An introduction to Olympic victor lists; 2. Hippias of Elis and the first Olympic victor list; 3. Olympionikon Anangraphai and standard catalogs of Olympic victors; 4. Olympiad chronographies; 5. Olympiad chronicles; 6. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Paul Christesen, Paul (Dartmouth College Christesen, CHRISTESEN PAUL
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107410695
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41069-5
• No. of pages: 600
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics & Paralympics, Ancient World, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Olympic & Paralympic games, Olympic and Paralympic games