Money and Honor in Ancient Athletics / edited by Christoph Begass, Christian Mann, and Marco Tentori Montalto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Begass, Christoph, editor.

Mann, Christian, 1971- editor.

Tentori Montalto, Marco, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2024]

Summary:

Experts of ancient sport have long treated "money" and "honor" as opposites. Up to the 1970s, the idea of Greek gentlemen's sport prevailed. It is one of the most exciting challenges for sport historians to overcome this opposition and to develop a concept that integrates the economic and symbolic motivations of ancient athletes. From the very beginning, economic aspects played a role in Greek sport, and honor remained important until the end of ancient athletics. But despite these continuities there are obvious developments in favor of economic factors: Cash prizes grew in importance since the Hellenistic period, and symbolical honors awarded to victorious athletes by their hometowns were transformed into financial ones. The studies collected in this volume aim at exploring the relationship of money and honor with regard to athletes, festivals and poleis.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Impressum

Contents

Preface

Abstracts

Christoph Begass: „Grosszügig", „Gerecht" und „Vielfach Geehrt"? zur Selbstdarstellung der Agonotheten in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit

Alexis Dhenain: L'Argent Dans la Motivation des Athlètes Gymniques à L'Époque Hellénistique

Christian Mann: Einführung: Geld, Ehre und Sport in der Antiken Gesellschaft

Georgios Mouratidis: Money, Honour, and Athletics in the Hellenistic Polis

Arlette Neumann-Hartmann: Ehre und Siegespreise in der Agonistik des 5. Jahrhunderts v. chr. - Die Perspektive der Epinikien

Thomas Heine Nielsen: On the Pursuit of Athletic Glory by the Poleis of Late Archaic and Classical Greece

Zinon Papakonstantinou: Sport Prizes in Archaic and Classical Greece. Funeral Games and the Great Panathenaia

Marco Tentori Montalto: Geld und Ehre in der Motivation und in der Selbstdarstellung der Athleten in der Kaiserzeit

Christian Mann: Einführung: Geld, Ehre und Sport in der antiken Gesellschaft

Thomas Heine Nielsen: On the Pursuit of Athletic Glory by the poleis of Late-Archaic and Classical Greece

Georgios Mouratidis: Money, Honour, and Athletics in the Hellenistic polis

Christoph Begass: „Großzügig", „gerecht" und „vielfach geehrt"? Zur Selbstdarstellung der Agonotheten in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit

Zinon Papakonstantinou: Sport Prizes in Archaic and Classical Greece: Funeral Games and the Great Panathenaia

Alexis Dhenain: L'argent dans la motivation des athlètes gymniques à l'époque hellénistique

Arlette Neumann-Hartmann: Ehre und Siegespreise in der Agonistik des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. - Die Perspektive der Epinikien.

Maria Letizia Caldelli: Denaro e simboli della vittoria nell'agonistica di epoca romana: Dialogo tra immagini e fonti scritte.Un caso studio: Il mosaico degli aurighi di Ostia

Index locorum.

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ISBN:

3-515-13641-X