Foreign Entrants at Minor Athletic Festivals in Late-Archaic and Classical Greece

TY - JOUR

T1 - Foreign Entrants at Minor Athletic Festivals in Late-Archaic and Classical Greece

AU - Nielsen, Thomas Heine

PY - 2019/6/19

Y1 - 2019/6/19

N2 - This study (a) argues that admittance of foreign entrants was characteristic not only of the Big Four athletic festivals of the periodos, but a general characteristic of Greek athletic festivals and (b) submits that this openness was the product of the Greek tradition for interaction across city-state boundaries and, finally, (c) argues that the openness of the athletic festivals was a prime producer of interaction in the Greek city-stateculture.

AB - This study (a) argues that admittance of foreign entrants was characteristic not only of the Big Four athletic festivals of the periodos, but a general characteristic of Greek athletic festivals and (b) submits that this openness was the product of the Greek tradition for interaction across city-state boundaries and, finally, (c) argues that the openness of the athletic festivals was a prime producer of interaction in the Greek city-stateculture.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0934-8913

VL - 27

SP - 91

EP - 158

JO - Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum

JF - Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum

ER -