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OLYMPIC GAMES IN THE «PICTURES» OF FILOSTRATOS
- Authors: Gvozdeva TB1
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- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: Vol 9, No 2 (2017)
- Pages: 109-121
- Section: Antique world
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/16533
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8127-2017-9-2-109-121
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In this article, the author proposes to consider how the theme of the Olympic games and Olympia as the center of Greek athletic sports was reflected in such unique monuments of ancient literature as a «Picture» of Philostratus the Elder and philostratus the Younger. They Olympia as the best place in Greece, but the Olympics are the best there is in Olympia. In the «Paintings» both Filostrato often referred to certain types of Greek athletics. Special attention is paid to them in equestrian competitions (ristani chariot and horse races) and martial arts (wrestling, pankration, pankration), rarely mentions the race and the pentathlon. Meet at the “Pictures” and the elements of the organization of the Olympic games, a sacred truce (ekecheiria), Olympic judge (hellanodikis), award of the Olympic wreaths, and also in the «Pictures» referred to the sports facilities of Olympia (the Hippodrome, arena, skamma, palestra).
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T B Gvozdeva
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
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Email: tbgvozdeva@rambler.ru
кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры всеобщей истории Российского университета дружбы народов
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10-2, Moscow, Russia, 117198References
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