TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The end of Greek athletics in late antiquity
T2  - Greek culture in the Roman world
A1  - Remijsen, Sofie, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
YR  - 2015
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.2865653
AB  - "Around AD 250 athletics was a significant part of civic life from southern Gaul and northern Africa to Syria and Egypt. Within this broad area, exercising in the gymnasium was a beloved pastime among those members of ancient society who could afford to be (occasionally) at leisure. Hundreds of agones, contests for athletes and/or performing artists, were organized by almost as many cities. Though some of these competitions could look back on centuries-old traditions, most had been founded only a century or even a few decades before, as part of a phenomenon described by Louis Robert as the "agonistic explosion" of the imperial age"--
OP  - 389
SN  - 1107050782 hardback
SN  - 9781107050785 hardback
KW  - Athletics : History.
KW  - Athletics : Greece : History.
KW  - Civilization : Greek influences.
KW  - Sports : History.
KW  - Sports : Greece : History.
ER  -