Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History

by Paul Christesen

Book Overview

This is the first 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521866340
• ISBN13: 9780521866347
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"