The smell of sweat : Greek athletics, Olympics, and culture / by Wm. Blake Tyrrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyrrell, William Blake.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athletics--Greece--History.

Athletics.

History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Greek athletics, olympics, and culture

Place of Publication:

Wauconda, Ill. : Bolchazy-Carducci Pub., [2004]

System Details:

System requirements: 486 or Pentium PC; 16 MB RAM; Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT; floating point copressor; mouse

Contents:

Introduction: The Myth of Amateurism xiii

1. The Warrior and the Funeral Games in the Iliad 1

The Arete of the Warrior 2

The Hoplite Race 6

The Funeral Games for Patroclus 8

Alkinoos' Contests for Odysseus 27

2. Early Olympia 31

Geographical Setting 32

Religious Setting 35

Setting Worth Fighting For 36

Mythic Setting 38

Setting for Lacedaemonians 45

Setting for Growth 49

3. The Panhellenic Cycle of Athletic Festivals and Their Poet 57

Olympic Games: The First Events 59

Pythian Games: Horse Racing 74

Isthmian Games 87

Nemean Games 94

Pindar's Epinician Odes 98

4. The Heavy Events 105

Wrestling 107

Boxing 118

Pankration 133

5. Athletics in Athens 141

Panathenaic Games 145

The Gymnasion and its Culture 156

The Critics 175

6. Olympic Festival 181

The Sanctuary during the Classical Period 181

The Games: Making Ready 188

The Five Days of Competition 197

Pentathlon 204

Discus 204

Jump 210

Javelin 213

The Sequence of Events in Pentathon 216

Determining the Winner of Pentathlon 218

Glorious Day, Day of Glory 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-252) and index.

ISBN:

086516553X

OCLC:

54407115