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Author König, Jason.

Title Athletics and literature in the Roman empire / Jason König.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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 Special Collections on Request  TT 870.9 KONI    LIB USE ONLY
Book Cover
Series Greek culture in the Roman world
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-378) and indexes.
Contents Introduction -- Lucian and Anacharsis : gymnasion education in the Greek city -- Models for virtue : Dio's 'Melankomas' orations and the athletic body -- Pausanias and Olympic Panhellenism -- Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome -- Athletes and doctors : Galen's agonistic medicine -- Philostratus' gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body -- Conclusion.
Subject Athletics -- Rome.
Athletics in literature.
Latin literature -- History and criticism.
Collection Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
ISBN 0521838452
ISBN/ISSN 9780521838450
Description xix, 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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