Stories from ancient sports in Ptolemy Chennus’ Καινὴ ἱστορία (Phot. Bibl. 190)

  • Álvaro Ibáñez Chacón University of Granada
Keywords: Ptolemy Chennus, Photius, ancient sports, paideia
Agencies: Trabajo realizado en el marco del Proyecto de Investigación Estudios sobre tradición, transmisión y recepción de la mitografía griega. Antigüedad, Medievo y Humanismo (PID2019-108931GB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033)

Abstract

The mythographer Ptolemy Chennus (Phot. Bibl. 190) wrote a strange work full of fictive stories and among these are several anecdotes of ancient sport. Ptolemy was another Graeco-Roman intellectual who in the Roman Empire revalued the Greek past, including physical education and sports, because they were part of the paideía and an operator of Greek identity at least until Hellenistic times.

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Published
2022-03-02
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Ibáñez Chacón, Á. (2022). Stories from ancient sports in Ptolemy Chennus’ Καινὴ ἱστορία (Phot. Bibl. 190). Cuadernos de Filología Clásica. Estudios Griegos E Indoeuropeos, 32, 299-316. https://doi.org/10.5209/cfcg.78919
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