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Auteur(s) : Golden, Mark (1948-....)
Titre(s) : Greek sport and social status [Texte imprimé] / by Mark Golden
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008
Description matérielle : xvi, 214 p. ; 23 cm
Collection : Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series
Lien à la collection : The Fordyce W. Mitchel memorial lecture series
Comprend : Helpers, horses, and heroes: contests over victory in ancient Greece ; Slaves and ancient Greek sport ; Greek games and gladiators ; Olive-tinted spectacles: myths in the histories of the ancient and modern Olympics.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-194) and indexes
"From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement
has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority
on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social
status, both in antiquity and in modern times ; Mark Golden explores a variety of
ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains
how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys,
drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried
to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next
essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite
its use as a marker of free Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims
made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes
and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars
today usually admit ; In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of
ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the
modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes
that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics
is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions."--BOOK JACKET
Sujet(s) : Sports -- Société -- Grèce -- Antiquité
Grèce -- 499-323 av. J.-C. (Époque classique)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780292718692 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0292718691 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9780292721531 (pbk.). - ISBN 0292721536 (pbk.)
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