Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521866347)

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.

Author: Paul Christesen
ISBN-10: 0521866340
ISBN-13: 9780521866347
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2007
Pages: 600
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.01lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.47w x 1.62d