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  • Chapter 4 - Athlete and Koinon

  • Sebastian Scharff, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
  • Book:
    Hellenistic Athletes
    Published online:
    16 March 2024
    Print publication:
    14 March 2024, pp 201-232

  • Summary

    By focusing on the relevance of regional identities in the self-presentation of Hellenistic victors, this chapter explores agonistic fame beyond the level of the polis. As the best documented case, the agonistic representation of Thessalian victors is of particular importance. It reveals that Hellenistic horse owners from Thessaly always emphasized their regional instead of their polis identity in order to enhance their horses’ value as objects of prestige and to create a virtual “hall of fame” of victorious horses and their owners. Although this was an exceptional case, regional identities were also expressed by Phokian and Arkadian athletes in the early Hellenistic age. Taken as a whole, the period saw the heyday of Greek federal states; and yet, the basic unit in the agonistic discourse remained the polis.