Olympia (eBook)

A Cultural History

Judith M. Barringer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21853-3 (ISBN)

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A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient era, Olympia was renowned for far more than its athletic contests. In Olympia, Judith Barringer provides a comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important sites in the ancient Greek and Roman world, where athletic competitions took place alongside-and were closely connected with-crucial religious and political activities.Barringer describes the development of the Altis, the most sacred area of Olympia, where monuments to athletes successful in the games joined those erected to the gods and battlefield victories. Rival city-states and rulers built monuments to establish eminence, tout alliances, and join this illustrious company in a rich intergenerational dialogue. The political importance of Olympia was matched by its place as the largest sanctuary dedicated to Zeus, king of the gods. Befitting Zeus's role as god of warfare, the Olympian oracle was consulted to ensure good omens for war, and the athletic games embodied the fierce competition of battle. Other gods and heroes were worshipped at Olympia too, Hera, Artemis, and Herakles among them.Drawing on a comprehensive knowledge of the archaeological record, Barringer describes the full span of Olympia's history, from the first monumental building around 600 BC to the site's gradual eclipse in the late Christianized Roman empire. Extensively illustrated with maps and diagrams, Olympia brings the development of Olympia vividly to life for modern readers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 32 colour + 149 b/w illus. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Acropolis • Aileen • Altis • Ancient Greece • Ancient Greek sculpture • ancient oracles • ancient sanctuaries • ancient sport • ancient sports • Arcadia • archaeology • Archaic Greece • archaic period • architectural sculpture • Architrave • Arndt • Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) • Boeotia • Boule (ancient Greece) • Bouleuterion • Byzantium • Chariot racing • Colonies in antiquity • Croesus • Cult • Defensive wall • Delphi • Dio Chrysostom • Doric order • Eckhardt • Eileithyia • Eleusis • Elis • Ephesus • epidamnos • Epigraphy • Equestrian Statue • Exedra • Figurine • Giants (Greek mythology) • Greek art • Greek History • Greek Mythology • Greek religion • Greeks • guide to Olympia • Hecatomb • Hellenistic period • Heraion • Herodes Atticus • Herodotus • history of the ancient Olympic Games • Homer • honorific • Hyperborea • Iamidai • Iconography • Imperial cult (ancient Rome) • In situ • Intercolumniation • Kladeos • Late Antiquity • Magna Graecia • Marble sculpture • Messene • Metope • Metroon • Near East • Oracle • Panegyris • Parian marble • Parthenon • Patras • Pausanias • Pausanias (geographer) • Pediment • Pelopion • Peloponnese • pelops • peristyle • Phidias • Philippeion • pictures of Olympia • Poetry • Polis • Polykleitos • Pottery • Praxiteles • procession • Proxeny • Prytaneion • Ptolemaic Kingdom • R. • Reuse • Roman Empire • Roman Greece • Roman Olympia • sculpture • seven wonders of the ancient world • Statue • Statue of Zeus at Olympia • Stoa • Stylobate • Syracuse, Sicily • tantalus • temple of artemis • temple of Zeus • Terracotta • Thebes, Greece • The Persians • Thesmophoria • The Various • Thought • Tropaion • Tumulus • Votive offering • warfare • Wealth • Western Greece • Worship
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21853-6 / 0691218536
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21853-3 / 9780691218533