Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics - Softcover

Stuttard, David

 
9780714122724: Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0714122726 ISBN 13: 9780714122724
Verlag: British Museum Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Olympia symbolized excellence and supremacy in every sense of the word, not only athletic, but also political. Every four years, this international festival – carefully timed to coincide with the August full moon – drew the strongest and fastest athletic champions, hoping to win glory for their city-state. With them came the ruling elite, equally intent on displaying their city’s power and prestige by excelling at the Games. After the athletic contests, Olympia also served as the ideal forum for political parleys and alliances. This absorbing narrative, told from a spectator’s viewpoint, revolves around the Games of 416 BC – a turning point in Greek politics when a cold war between Athens and other major cities was about to erupt into bloody fighting. The reader vividly experiences what it was like to be there, to witness the rituals, official banquets, bloody contests, victory celebrations and subsequent political parleys.

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David Stuttard taught Classics for eleven years in Edinburgh, St Andrews and York, and has written numerous books on the Classical world including Greek Mythology: A Traveller’s Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy, A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives and The Romans Who Shaped Britain (with Sam Moorhead), all published by Thames & Hudson. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and a Fellow of Goodenough College, London.

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Verlag
British Museum Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0714122726
ISBN 13 
9780714122724
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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