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Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece

Zinon Papakonstantinou

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Description:From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction ofa plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, social status and gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of this process of identity construction through sport, including elite identities and sport in archaic Greece, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece. To get started finding Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction ofa plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, social status and gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of this process of identity construction through sport, including elite identities and sport in archaic Greece, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece. To get started finding Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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