Athletics and paideia: Festivals and physical education in the world of the Second Sophistic
Year: 2004
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Introduction: Two statues in OinoandaA third century visitor to the small city of Oinoanda, high up in the Lycian mountains, would have had to walk up a steep colonnaded street leading from the city gates into the city centre (fig.1).Arriving at the agora, it would have been impossible to miss a set of honorific statues, located on his left hand side (fig.2).One statue had been set up for a grammatikos -school teacher and local orator -Iulius Lucius Pilius Euarestos, who had been a major benefactor of the city in founding an agonistic festival that was named after him: the Euaresteia. 2 (A) Lucius Pilius Euarestus, Lover of his Fatherland, grammaticus with immunity from local liturgies, man of generosity, agonothete for life of his own foundation, which he himself created with his own money for all time; on the occasion of the fifth pane---------1 I would like to thank Chris Dickenson, Johan Strubbe, Rolf Tybout, Sofia Voutsaki and ArjanZuiderhoek for their help with this paper.2 Hall -Milner, 1994, no.18 (translation by the editors) = SGO 4 17
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Author: Onno van Nijf
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2530722765