»There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods
Victory in the great athletic games was widely seen in the Greek world as one of the summits of human achievement. Yet a surprisingly large number of texts present a negative view of athletics, including Xenophanes fr. 2 West and Euripides fr. 282 TrGF. The reasons for this criticism – which has var...
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Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH
2014
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50696/ |