Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek 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.
- 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
Product details
October 2012Paperback
9781107410695
600 pages
229 × 152 × 34 mm
0.87kg
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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.
