Olympic victor lists and ancient Greek history / Paul Christesen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christesen, Paul, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olympic games (Ancient).

Greece--History.

Greece.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 580 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Olympic Victor Lists & Ancient Greek History

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-564) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-17892-4

9786612001116

1-282-00111-6

0-511-47945-X

0-511-47705-8

0-511-48025-3

0-511-47560-8

0-511-55096-0

0-511-47857-7

OCLC:

437089968