Sibari e gli ‘altri’ Giochi Olimpici

Name: Sibari e gli ‘altri’ Giochi Olimpici
Brand: Vita e Pensiero
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Articolo

Rivista

AEVUM

Fascicolo

AEVUM - 2011 - 1

Titolo

Sibari e gli ‘altri’ Giochi Olimpici

Autore

Luisa Prandi

Editore

Vita e Pensiero

Formato

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01-2011

Issn

0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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SUMMARY: Some ancient authors (Heraclides Ponticus, ps.-Scymnus and Dionysius Periegetes) accuse the Sybarites for attempting to organize Panhellenic Games in competition with the Olympic ones. A careful scrutiny of all evidence, including the relations between Sybaris and Olympia in archaic age, leads to disbelieve it and to pinpoint two matters of fact: a) the polis of Sybaris might have planned to increase its prestige among the Western Greeks, managing and strengthening some local athletic games, as Corinth did with Isthmian Games at the beginning of the same VI century; b) the idea that these games were set in the same days of the Olympic Games for the purpose of competing with Olympia is due to a typical postclassical misinterpretation of the wealthy past of the Sybarites, which marks the greater part of the tradition about them.