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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of World History</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Всеобщая история</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-8127</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-833X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">31948</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-8127-2022-14-3-257-266</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>SPORTING LIFE IN ANTIQUITY</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>СПОРТИВНАЯ ЖИЗНЬ АНТИЧНОСТИ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Inception of the ‘cult’ of ball game ‘stars’ in Hellenistic Athenes</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Зарождение «культа звезд» игры в мяч в эллинистических Афинах</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2179-7330</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Korovchinskiy</surname><given-names>Ivan Nikolayevich</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Коровчинский</surname><given-names>Иван Николаевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>PhD in History; Associate Professor of the Department of World History, Archaeology and Methodology of Historical Science; Faculty of History, Political Science and Law</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, доцент кафедры всеобщей истории, археологии и методологии исторической науки</p></bio><email>korin3@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Moscow Region State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Московский государственный областной университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-09-16" publication-format="electronic"><day>16</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><issue>3</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">Social Life of the Ancient World</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">Общественная жизнь античного мира</issue-title><fpage>257</fpage><lpage>266</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-09-15"><day>15</day><month>09</month><year>2022</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2022, Korovchinskiy I.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2022, Коровчинский И.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Korovchinskiy I.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Коровчинский И.Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/31948">https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/31948</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p style="text-align: justify;">Absract. Nowadays ball games are the most popular types of sport in the world including Russia. This fact contrasts sharply with the almost total absence of research in the field of ancient Greek ball games in Russian historical science. The aim of this article is to fill that gap at least on a small scale. The history of Greek ball games in the Hellenistic period is especially interesting because of the rise of their significance at that time. Τhe method of historicism and the comparative method are applied in this article. The most important sources for our article are the fragments of Athenaios’ Deipnosophistai (I, 26, 34) related to playing ball in Hellenistic times. We reconsidered the fragment by Damoxenus, the 3rd century BC writer of comedies, quoted by Athenaeus and usually interpreted as devoted to homosexual feelings. In our view it rather reflects a rapture of Athenian fans over a ball-player’s skill. However, the dramatist hyperbolizes this rapture in order to make it more comical. We correlate this fragment of Damoxenus with Athenaeus’ mention of significant honors (including granting of citizenship) given by Athenes to Aristonicus, Alexander the Great’s coach in ball games. Those honors are also reflected in the extant Athenian decree honoring Aristonicus. The talented ball-players became popular in the Hellenistic period possibly because at that time popularity was won by the idea that playing ball is useful for the military training. However conservators, continuing to regard ball games as mere entertainment (as it had been typical in the Classical period) could probably still exist, and Damoxenus’ mockery at the rapture over talent in ball game may reflect their views.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p style="text-align: justify;">В наше время игры в мяч являются наиболее популярными из видов спорта, в т. ч. в России. Тем досаднее, что в российском антиковедении практически не отражены их древнегреческие истоки. Эта статья призвана восполнить данный пробел. Особый интерес представляет греческая игра в мяч в период эллинизма, когда ее значение для греков значительно возросло. Цитируемый Афинеем фрагмент комедиографа ΙΙΙ в. до н. э. Дамоксена, традиционно понимаемый как посвященный гомосексуальным чувствам, реинтерпретирован нами как отражающий восторг афинских болельщиков перед мастерством игрока в мяч. Данный восторг, впрочем, изображен комедиографом в карикатурно-гиперболизированном виде, чем как раз и вызвано его внешнее сходство с эротической страстью. С фрагментом Дамоксена сопоставляется упоминание Афинеем значительных почестей (вплоть до дарования гражданства), оказанных Афинами Аристонику, тренеру Александра Великого по игре в мяч. Данные почести отражены также в сохранившемся (впрочем, плохо) тексте афинского декрета в честь Аристоника. Популярность талантливых игроков в мяч в эллинистических Афинах связана с тем, что в эпоху эллинизма общегреческую популярность приобрела идея о пользе игры в мяч для тренировки воинов. Однако продолжали существовать консерваторы, считавшие игру в мяч, как и в классический период, не более чем забавой, преимущественно детской, с чем и может быть связано высмеивание Дамоксеном восторга перед талантом игрока в мяч.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>history of sport</kwd><kwd>playing ball</kwd><kwd>Hellenism</kwd><kwd>Athenes</kwd><kwd>Athenaios</kwd><kwd>Greek New Comedy</kwd><kwd>decree of honor</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>история спорта</kwd><kwd>игра в мяч</kwd><kwd>эллинизм</kwd><kwd>Афины</kwd><kwd>Афиней</kwd><kwd>новоаттическая комедия</kwd><kwd>почетный декрет</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Nesselrath H.G. 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