Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
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Paul Christesen (Author)
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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.
About the Author
Paul Christesen is Assistant Professor of classics at Dartmouth College.
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- Contributor: Paul Christesen
- Imprint: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN13: 9780521866347
- Number of Pages: 600
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x38mm
- Packaged Weight: 1050
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Release Date: 2007-10-22
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Paul Christesen is Assistant Professor of classics at Dartmouth College.
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