Athletics and literature in the Roman Empire

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Abstract

1. Introduction 2. Lucian and Anacharsis: gymnasion education in the Greek city 3. Models for virtue: Dio's Melankomas and the athletic body 4. Pausanias and Olympic panhellenism 5. Silius Italicus and the athletics of Rome 6. Athletes and doctors: Galen's agonistic medicine 7. Philostratus' Gymnasticus and the rhetoric of the athletic body Conclusion.

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Sports, Gender, and Society Linguistic and Cultural Studies Classical Antiquity Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Publication Details

Published in: Choice Reviews Online

Volume 44, Issue 02, pp. 44-0995

DOI: 10.5860/choice.44-0995

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