»There’s nothing worse than athletes«: criticism of athletics and professionalism in the archaic and classical periods

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»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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Main Author:	Edmund, Stewart
Format:	Article
Published:	Weidmannsche Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH 2014
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50696/

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