Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety and War

Kyle, Donald G.

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“…22 Likewise, family ties feature prominently in other Spartan agonistic inscriptions. 23 In context here, this emphasis 19 Pace Kyle (2003) 185. 20 As a referee noted, the emphasis on familial relationships and on male family members in the inscription is consistent with what we know of women's dedicatory inscriptions and their generic constraints in general.…”

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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Carrara

2023

Antichthon

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This article examines the historical creation of the legacy of Kyniska, the Spartan royal who was the first woman to win at the ancient Olympics in the early fourth century BCE, from her own lifetime to the modern era. By investigating the reception of her victory rather than her agency as historical actor, I demonstrate that the continuing relevance of her victory has depended on others’ literary, historical, or political goals. I examine the creation and contestation of Kyniska's victory at five key moments of reception: 1) in the narratives of Xenophon, Plutarch, and Pausanias; 2) in her own victory monument; 3) in poetry commemorating Hellenistic rulers; 4) in feminist didactic biography of the nineteenth century; and 5) in the debates surrounding the modern Olympics. These moments reveal how her victory's reception has contributed to ancient and modern discourses on womanhood and gender. By contextualising Kyniska in each of these distinct eras and environments, I suggest that the perception of her victory has never been monolithic, not even in the ancient world.

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Section: The Epigraphic Kyniskamentioning

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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Carrara

2023

Antichthon

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“…To be Greek, he noted in his celebrated Histories, did not just involve living alongside other Greeks but sharing what he termed 'Greekness', something, he believed which united all Greeks as 'one' in blood, language, habits, shared gods, sport and sacrifice in war. 27 Yet even the Greeks understood that Greece as such did not exist as a 'united nation' but was 'rather a collection of individual cities' only brought together every 4 years by the Olympics. 28 Nor was the Europe which grew up thereafter composed of nation-states.…”

Section: Nationalism In Historymentioning

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Nationalism, nations and the crisis of world order

Cox

2019

International Relations

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One hundred years ago, the first Department of International Politics was established at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, with the express purpose of seeking in Arnold Toynbee’s prophetic words (uttered many years later) – of breaking decisively with the ‘habit of nationalism’. As David Davies in the founding statement put it, by moving beyond ‘insular and vested prejudices … the shattered family of nations’ could be brought back together again and a new world order established. Yet as the history of the twentieth century showed – and the new century looks to be no nearer to realizing that original dream – nationalism has throughout continued to retain its power of mobilizing peoples and setting nation against nation. How and why this happened and with what consequences is the subject of this article.

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“…Before doing so, we would like to briefly refer to scholarly discussions on Greekness (shared identity) or Hellenic identity, two concepts usually used as synonyms. The purpose of this article is not to focus on the plethora of academic research on Greekness, on the complex, multifaceted and conflicting views on Hellenism (Patsantaras, 2015b)-or "Pan-Hellenism" (Kyle, 2009), which is based on culture and not on territorial or political unification-or even on the discussion on "Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture" (Hall, 2002). However, we need to point out that studies on Greekness and "Greeknesses" (Papari, 2018) generally refer to descent, common ancestry, politics, culture, a stronger sense of a common/shared Greek cultural identity or the collective sense of Hellenic ethnicity (Gruen, 2020;Mitchell, 2012;Patsantaras, 2015b), among other things.…”

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“…Donald Kyle (2009) focuses on Herodutus' accounts concerning sport and specifically those that reveal the intersections of sport (agonistic festivals and athletes) and Greek ethnicity, religion, politics and warfare. Herodotus, he argues, makes occasional but significant use of sport to characterize peoples and individuals, while referring to several athletes, but primarily for their political or military achievements.…”

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Experiencing the Myth: Greekness and the German Hero

Patsantaras

Kamberidou

2022

EJPE

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This article explores the influence that an unexpected athletic success can have on the construction of national identity while attempting to answer the question on how such a success can be used as a means to overcome national crises. Using a reflective analysis, this study examines the impact of the Euro 2004 Championship on Greece’s national identity, highlighting the correlation between two events associated with Greekness, to wit national pride and Hellenic identity in the sport, economic and social contexts. The first event was the unpredicted victory of the Greek football team in 2004, thanks to their German coach Otto Rehhagel, and the second Rehhagel’s visit to Athens in March 2013, in his informal role of political mediator, in an attempt to contribute to restoring Greek-German friendship which had been shattered during the country’s period of economic memorandums. This conceptual paper uses a qualitative discourse analysis to explain and understand human action through an examination of media texts and symbolic narratives: the headlines and narratives on the Euro 2004 victory in the Greek and foreign press and media, along with the slogans used by football fans after each victory, voicing the ‘superiority’ of Greekness. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0935/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety and War

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Nationalism, nations and the crisis of world order

Experiencing the Myth: Greekness and the German Hero

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