Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
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- Author: Paul Christesen, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
- Date Published: October 2012
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- isbn: 9781107410695
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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.
Read more- First comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists, a type of literature widely read in the ancient world
- Addresses a number of questions of considerable importance, including the source and reliability of the date 776 for the first Olympics
- Pertains to subject matter that is of interest to almost any scholar whose work touches on ancient Greek history
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- Date Published: October 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107410695
- length: 600 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.87kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. An introduction to Olympic victor lists
2. Hippias of Elis and the first Olympic victor list
3. Olympionikon Anangraphai and standard catalogs of Olympic victors
4. Olympiad chronographies
5. Olympiad chronicles
6. Conclusion.
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