List of figures
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter I: Introduction
Book contents
Chapter II: Status, Elite Identity and Social Hierarchy in Archaic Greek Sport
- Sport and Elite Status in Homeric Greece: Exceptionalism, Competition and Modes of Representation
- Sport and Elite Status in Late Archaic Greece: Between "Homeric" and "Civic" Athletics
- Sport and Elite xenia in Sicyon
- Chariot-racing and Elite Identity in Late Archaic Athens
- Family Traditions of Athletic Achievement in Archaic and Classical Athens
- Victory Commemoration and Elite Identities in Archaic and Classical Athens
- Conclusion
Chapter III: Games, Spectators and Communal Identities
1. Spectatorship
2. Regulations and Regulatory Bodies
3. Athenian Rewards for Athletes
4. Sports Officials
5. Olympia as a Catalyst of Hellenicity
6. Civic Agonistic Festivals, Identity and Community
7. Conclusion
Chapter IV: Rules, Eligibility and Participation
1. Technical Rules: The Olympic Games and Beyond
2. Regulation of Athletic Facilities and Training Programs
3. Eligibility in Local Games
4. The Legal Framework of Other Panhellenic and Local Games
5. Conclusion
Chapter V: Bodies, Life-narratives and Civic Service
1. Embodied Performances
2. The Athletic Body in Epinician Poetry
3. Athletes and their Bodies in Classical Athens
4. Athletic Bodies, Discourses and Institutions
4a. Virtue and Pain: Constructing the Athletic Body
4b. Athletic Victory and Civic Service
4c. Athletic Achievement, Multiple Identities and Corporeality: the Case of L. Septimius Flavianus Flavillianus
4d. Athletics, Family Traditions and Elite Ritualized Friendship
4e. Athletic Training, Victory and Agonistic Benefaction
5. Conclusion
Chapter VI: Liminality, Reflexivity and Hybridity
1. Greek gymnasia and Agonistic Festivals: Conflict and Accommodation
1a. The gymnasion as Social Space
1b. Agonistic Festivals in Imperial Stratonikeia: Eurgetism and Audience Engagement
1c. Greek Agonistic Festivals: Liminality and Accommodation
2. Femininity and the Athletic Ethos
3. A Greco-Roman Agonistic Culture
4. Conclusion
Chapter VII: Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Zinon Papakonstantinou is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
