CLAS/HIST240 Ancient Societies:
 Sport and Recreation
Department of Classics, Monmouth College

List of Geographic Places to Learn

You should know the athletic significance of each of the following places (written in capital letters) and be able to locate each place on a map of the Mediterranean world for a Map/Geography Quiz. The names and terms listed under each place are clues to the significance. Click here for a sample map.

ARLES
Roman amphitheatre

ATHENS
Panathenaic festival
Solon

BRAURON
Festival for women in honor of Artemis

CARYSTOS
Glaukos

CORINTH
Crown game of Isthmia

CRETE
Bull-jumping
Sotades

CROTON
Phaylos
Astylos
Demokedes

DELPHI
Pythina Crown game

ELIS
supervised Olympic Games

EPHESUS
Sotades

KNOSSOS
Bull-jumping

MARATHON
battle of 490 B.C.

MEGARA
Orsippos

NEMEA
Crown game

OLYMPIA
Crown game

POMPEII
Roman amphitheatre

RHODES
Kallipateira
Diagoras

ROME
Nero
Colosseum
Circus Maximus
Ludus Magnus

SICILY
(see also Syracuse)
Funeral Games of Anchises

SPARTA
Damonon
Phidippides
Kyniska
Lichas

SYRACUSE
Hieron
Astylos

THASOS
Theagenes

THEBES
Pindar

THERA
Boxer fresco

TROY
Funeral Games of Patroclus

Good websites for mapwork include: http://www.hsa.brown.edu/~maicar/MapGreece.html
 Interactive Ancient Mediterranean

This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.

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