Mémoires de champions Corpus des palmarès, d'Octavien à Valentinien Ier

• Main Author: Strasser, Jean-Yves (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Athènes École française d'Athènes 2021
• Series: Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR)
• Subjects: Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Ancient Greece; Antiquity; epigraphy; Greek World; Greco-Roman Antiquity; sport; Late Antiquity; olympic games
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Greek-style artistic and sporting competitions (agōnes) reached a peak, in terms of numbers and geographical coverage, under the Roman High Empire. Musicians, runners and boxers travelled the length and breadth of the Mediterranean world, from Rome to Antioch and from Gaul to Africa, in the hopes o...