10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PANCRATIST»
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1
Who Speaks for Plato?: Studies in Platonic Anonymity
In its plays on the allusions of "pancratist" Plato's dialectical logic here once
again deviates radically from the single-strand, linear logic of demonstration, and
we, for our part, need to listen simultaneously to each of the multiple motifs of his
...
2
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
PANCRATIST. PANCRATIUM—. PANDER. priming that communicates with the
charge ; something hollow; among farmers, the hard stratum of earth below the
soil. In Grecian Mythology, the chief rural deity, who presided over flocks and
herds ...
John Craig (F.G.S.),
1849
3
Rethinking Greek Religion
8 Sadly, most life-sized bronzes have been lost, but excavations north ofthe
Prytaneion have produced the head of a wrestler or pancratist, dating from the
fourth century BC (Fig. 7).'09 Classical scholars have sought to assign the head
to one ...
A pancratist was a Greek athlete who was as ready and able to box as to wrestle;
we might now call him a regular knock-out or a flat-out. Yet the same word might
also describe the devoted people who would keep one old building on its ...
Ivor John Carnegie Brown,
1967
Lygdamis. of. Syracuse. Pancratist. daytime sun screens all the stars of the night.
"Olympia has given us the most famous of all Games" 3. Philostratos, who lived
around 200 A. D., has gone down in history for his well known book "The Art of ...
6
An Outline of Cynic Philosophy: Antisthenes of Athens and ...
Coragus threw his javelin, which was dodged by the pancratist, and then his
spear was shattered by Dioxippus' club. Before Coragus could draw his sword,
however, Dioxippus used his techniques to unbalance his opponent and throw
him to ...
Keith Seddon, C. D. Yonge,
2010
7
History of Greek Literature: From Homer to the Hellenistic ...
(Epinician odes, for example, were occasionally composed by several poets for
the same victory: Bacchylides' Thirteenth Ode, dated 485 BC, celebrates the
pancratist (wrestler and boxer) Pytheas of Aegina, for whom Pindar had written
the ...
8
Jews in the Gym: Judaism, Sports, and Athletics
Philo's works are permeated with imagery drawn from contests in the stadium,
organizations of local games, and the training routines of athletes.47 For
example, he compares a virtuous man to a pancratist in the public games, who
endures ...
Leonard Jay Greenspoon,
2012
9
The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, ...
A pancratist in the Olympic games (called Arrichion, or Arrachion,) perceiving
himself almost suffocated by his adversary, who had got fast hold of him by the
throat, at the same time that he held him by the foot, broke one of his enemy's
toes, ...
Charles Rollin, Robert Lynam,
1832
10
The Quarterly Review (London)
Plato's Banquet, accordingly, celebrates a triumphant tragedy; that of Xenophon
commemorates a victory gained in the wrestling-school. The hero of the first is
Agathon, a poet; the favourite in the second is a young pancratist, patronised by
the ...