Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Jason Konig

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2008

About this Item

Clean and tight, light edgwear to covers, small sellotape repair to edge of front cover. Clean, unmarked pages, without highlights or annotations. 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. 420 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 750 grams. Category: History; ISBN/EAN: 9780521070089. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: dscf4098. Seller Inventory # dscf4098

Bibliographic Details

Title: Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: Later Edition