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22 - Athletics, Democracy, and War

from Part IV - Culture and Sport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
David M. Pritchard
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

This chapter studies elite sport in Classical Athens and its relationship to war. It argues that this relationship explains why non-elite citizens support pro-sport policies.

Keywords

athleticssporteducationdemocracyOlympics
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 307 - 318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

This chapter summarizes Pritchard 2013. The other monograph on Athenian athletics is the still indispensable Kyle 1987. On Greek athletics in general, see Phillips and Pritchard 2003, Miller 2004, and Christesen and Kyle 2014. For images of sport on Athenian vases, see Oakley 2020, 131–166. On Athenian competitive festivals, see Osborne 1993. For the most thorough treatment of the Great Panathenaia, see Shear 2021.

Bibliography

Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

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