《Greek Athletics in the Roman World》是2005年Oxford Univ Pr出版的圖書，作者是Newby, Zahra。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Greek Athletics in the Roman World
- 作者：Newby, Zahra
- 出版社：Oxford Univ Pr
- ISBN：9780199279302
內容簡介
The enduring importance of Greek athletic training and competition during the period of the Roman Empire has been a neglected subject in past scholarship on the ancient world. This book examines the impact that Greek athletics had on the Roman world, approaching it through the plentiful surviving visual evidence, viewed against textual and epigraphic sources. It shows that the traditional picture of Roman hostility has been much exaggerated. Instead Greek athletics came to exercise a profound influence upon Roman spectacle and bathing culture. In the Greek east of the empire too, athletics continued to thrive, providing Greek cities with a crucial means of asserting their cultural identity while also accommodating Roman imperial power.
