Athletics in the Hellenistic World

Christian Mann / Sofie Remijsen / Sebastian Scharff (ed.)
Athletics in the Hellenistic World
the editors
Christian Mann, Professor of
Ancient History, University of
Mannheim.
Christian Mann, Professor of
Ancient History, University of
Mannheim.
Sebastian Scharff, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of
Mannheim.
This is the first book on athletics in the Hellenistic era, with
16 contributions covering a range of historical, archaeological
and philological perspectives. Previous scholarship has focused
primarily on the classical age and the Roman imperial period,
but it was in the Hellenistic age that Greek sport saw several
important developments: the spread of Greek athletic culture
in the East following the campaigns of Alexander the Great,
the foundation of new athletic contests, and the emergence of
a professional association of athletes. Topics discussed in this
volume include how agonistic victories were exploited in legitimating (some) Hellenistic kings, the value placed on athletic
prowess in the lively urban culture of this time, the role of sport
in defining Greek identity, and the changing modes of representation of athletic action in literature and the arts. In emphasizing the central place of athletics in Greek culture, these papers
offer new insights and will have far-reaching implications for
our understanding of the wider political and social history of
the Hellenistic period.
contributors
2016
366 pages with 38 photos,
Christian Mann, Thomas Heine Nielsen, Onno M. van Nijf &
Christina G. Williamson, Bram Fauconnier, Zinon Papakonstantinou, Elena Franchi, Marianne Mathys, Antiopi ArgyriouCasmeridis, Kathrin Weber, Sebastian Scharff, Frank Daubner,
Stephen Sansom, Barbara Dimde, Florian Klauser, Leonardo
Cazzadori, Lukas Kainz
16 figures and 10 tables
€ 62,–
978-3-515-11571-1 hardcover
978-3-515-11588-9 e-book
Please order here:
www.steiner-verlag.de

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