10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANCRATIAST»
Discover the use of
pancratiast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pancratiast and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate
Do you mean the pancratiast, by the stronger, Socrates taunts him. In a sense
Thrasymachus must mean this, regardless of the particular strength he had in
mind, for pancratiast is literally "the one strong in all things," or "the one strong
over all.
2
The History of Ancient Art
In the first place, Hercules has such ears, because he won the prize, as
Pancratiast, in the games which he himself instituted at Elis, in honor of Pelops,
son of Tantalus, as well as in those which Acastus, son of Pelias, celebrated at
Argos.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1872
3
Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z
The son of M. Aurelius Demetrius, ''Harpocration'', wrestler and periodonike ̄s in
pankration who was later head priest and xystarche ̄s of his guild and Director
of the Imperial Baths, Asclepiades had similar success as pancratiast and held ...
4
The History of Ancient Art Among the Greeks
In the first place, Hercules has such ears, because he won the prize, as
Pancratiast, in the games which he himself instituted at Elis, in honor of Pelops,
son of Tantalus, as well as in those which Acastus, son of Pelias, celebrated at
Argos.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 1850
5
The Fragments of "Attic Comedy" After Meineke, Bergk, and ...
THE PANCRATIAST or ALL-IN FIGHTER" 8 The Same: Theophilus in the
Pancratiast makes the hero of the play eat an enormous meal, and says: the
fighter Almost three pounds boiled meat — b Go on. f. A Pig's Snout, ham, four
trotters — b ...
John Maxwell Edmonds, 1959
6
Athletics in Ancient Athens
1.23.10; Hdt. 9.105 PA 5164; Hyde, OVM, 372-73; Connor, New Politicians, 156-
58 Pausanias refers to a statue of Hermolykos the pancratiast on the Acropolis,
and this probably was H. son of Euthynios, a pancratiast who distinguished ...
7
Hellenistic and Roman Sparta
5. Claudius Avidienus of Nicopolis. Poet and Spartan citizen. About 100. A victor
at the Urania (see chapter 13)? FD iii.1.no.542. 6. P.Aelius Aristomachus of
Magnesia-on-the Maeander. Pancratiast. Victor in about 120. Moretti 1953, no.71
. 7.
A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Cambridge University and Hellenic Parliament Global Distinguished Professor in the History and Theory of Democracy at New York University Paul Cartledge, Paul Cartledge, 2004
8
Essays on the Art of Pheidias
This statue belongs to the heavier genus of athletes, the boxer or the pancratiast.
In the earliest period, as we have mentioned before, the artists were not able to
confer individual character upon their statues, and the difficulty must have been ...
9
The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to ...
270 BC) 171 Artemidorus (author of a book on the interpretation of dreams) 242–
245; 263; 286 Artemidorus, Marcus Antonius (personal trainer) 165 Artemidorus
of Tralles (pancratiast) 51 Asclepiades, Marcus Aurelius (pancratiast) 281; ...
10
The Description of Greece
Calaurea, the island, i. 216. iii. 100. Calchas, ii. 155. Callias, the son of
Lysimachides, iii. 132. , the Olympic pancratiast, ii. 22. Callicles, the statuary, ii.
93. Callicrates caused the Achaians,through prodition, to become subject to the
Romans, ii.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PANCRATIAST»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pancratiast is used in the context of the following news items.
The Victory Odes of Pindar
In Isthmian 4, for a Theban pancratiast, Pindar rather surprisingly says that the victor was of puny appearance (line 50) – perhaps a joke for a ... «OUPblog, Jul 12»
The Money Games
The very best athletes would collect citizenship from dozens of places, as did a man named Asclepiades, a pancratiast (essentially an ancient ... «OUPblog, May 12»
