| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
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Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : Greeks, Romans, and athletics in the Roman world -- 2. Greek athletics in the heart of Rome -- 3. Visualizing athletics in the Roman baths -- 4. Idealized statues in Roman villas -- 5. Training warriors : the merits of a physical education -- 6. The Athenian Ephebeia : performing the past -- 7. Olympia and Pausanias' construction of Greece -- 8. Gymnasia, festivals, and euergetism in Asia minor -- 9 . Conclusions. |
| Summary |
Includes information on Athens, baths, boxing, Capitoline games at Rome, crowns, discus thrower statue, festivals, Gaul, gymnasium, Hadrian, Heracles, homoeroticism, identity, Myron, Nero, Olympic games, Ostia, Pausanias, Philostratus, Polycletius, Pomeii, Rome, sculpture, Sparta, theatre, victory statues, villas, etc. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Athletics -- Greece -- Philosophy.
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Athletics. |
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Greece. |
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Philosophy. |
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Athletics -- Social aspects -- Greece.
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Social aspects. |
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Athletics -- Rome.
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Nationalism and sports -- Greece.
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Nationalism and sports. |
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Rome -- Civilization -- Greek influences.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1-300 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newby, Zahra. Greek athletics in the Roman world. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 0199279306 9780199279302 (DLC) 2006296563 (OCoLC)60793931 |
| ISBN |
9781429470902 (electronic book) |
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1429470909 (electronic book) |
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9780191515576 |
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0191515574 |
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0199279306 (Cloth) |
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9780199279302 |
| Standard No. |
9780199279302 |
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