Konig Jason, Jason Nig Jason K. Nig, Jason Konig

Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Examination of Greek athletics in the Roman Empire and how they were represented in the literature of the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 679g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070089
• ISBN-10: 0521070082
• Artikelnr.: 23844093

Autorenporträt

Jason König is Lecturer in Greek and Classical Studies at the University of St. Andrews. He has written articles on a wide range of Greek authors from the Imperial period.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Lucian and Anacharsis: gymnasion education in the Greek city
3. Models for virtue: Dio's Melankomas and the athletic body
4. Pausanias and Olympic panhellenism
5. Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome
6. Athletes and doctors: Galen's agonistic medicine
7. Philostratus' Gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body
Conclusion.