Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History

By Paul Christesen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110741069X
• ISBN13: 9781107410695
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"