Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Long Jump, Hippeis, Peloponnesian War

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

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Athletics connected with the gymnasium where men trained: mousike kai gymnastike music and athletics", roman idea: mens sana in corpore sano. Competition was to win victory; not for the enjoyment of competing there was an important connection between military and athletics: vocabulary of athletic competition and military were similar. Origins of sport: the origin of sport is popular to anthropologists to prominent theories: 1. according to ethnologists, sport developed from primitive hunting ritual and was itself a kind of sacrifice. Romans also tied death and sport in gladiatorial contest. But, death doesn"t seem to have been involved in the crown. Patrocles" funerary: earliest description of athletic competition occurs in the iliad (bk 23) as part of, sports included: chariot-racing, boxing, wrestling, running, javelin, chariot racing seems to be at the top of a hierarchy of sports. Olympic games for zeus: most prestigious of the game, held at olympia at the shrine of zeus, women"s competitions were held separately called the.