Danielle Allen

Paul Christesen

Paul Millett

How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September of 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge's retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. For the better part of four decades, Paul Cartledge has spearheaded intellectual developments in the field of Greek culture in both scholarly and public contexts. His work has combined insightful historical accounts of particular places, periods, and thinkers with a willingness to explore comparative approaches and a keen focus on methodology. Cartledge has throughout his career emphasized the analysis of practice - the study not, for instance, of the history of thought but of thinking in action and through action. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge's work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge's work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past.

New Approaches to Ancient Greece

How to Do Things with History

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.

Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History

Donald G. Kyle

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Christian Mann

Robert Rollinger

Ingomar Weiler

Zinon Papakonstantinou

James G. Howie

Peter Mauritsch

Wolfgang Decker

NIKEPHOROS 26, 2013 Aufsätze Maria CHRISTIDIS, Theseus, mehr als ein Nationalheld. Zum kampanischen Lekanisdeckel der Universität Graz Thomas HEINE NIELSEN, A Note on the athloi in Drakon’s Homicide Law Evangelos ALBANIDIS, Exercise in Moderation. Health Perspectives of Hellenic Antiquity Cecilia NOBILI, Celebrating Sporting Victories in Classical Sparta. Epinician Odes and Epigrams Filippo CANALI DE ROSSI, Addizione di alcuni vincitori olimpici al catalogo degli Olympionikai. Il caso di Euagoras Andrew FARRINGTON, The Pythia of Sicyon Reyes BERTOLIN CEBRIAN, Change in Methods of Athlete Development in Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Sport? Christoph EBNER, Rechtliche Aspekte der Tierhetzen in Rom. Von der Republik bis in die Spätantike Jean-Paul THUILLIER, Factions du cirque et propriétaires de haras dans l’Espagne romaine Lucas CHRISTOPOULOS, Combat Sports Professionalism in Medieval China (220–960 AD) Marcel SIMONIS, Alea iacta est! Antikenrezeption in modernen Brettspielen Stephan WASSONG, Olympic Historiography in Germany. The Main Topics and the Challenges Bibliographie Zinon PAPAKONSTANTINOU/Sofie REMIJSEN, The Annual Bibliography of Sport in Antiquity 2013 Rezensionen Paul CHRISTESEN/Donald G. KYLE (eds.), A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Malden MA: Wiley Blackwell 2013 (Mark Golden) Demetrios G. PAPAGEORGIOU, Olumpia kai Olumpiakoi Agwnej , Athen: Kapon 2013 (Wolfgang Decker) Hazel DODGE, Spectacle in the Roman World, London; New York: Bristol Classical Press 2011 (Jean-Paul Thuillier) Martin STESKAL/Martino LA TORRE, Das Vediusgymnasium in Ephesos. Archäologie und Baubefund, Wien: Verlag der ÖAW 2008 (Peter Scherrer) Drei Neuerscheinungen zu Agonistik, Gymnastik und anderen Formen der Freizeitkultur in der Spätantike (Ingomar Weiler) Günter MANSFELD, Der Held auf dem Wagen (Wolfgang Decker)

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Nikephoros - Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum

Paul Christesen

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