There is reasonable presumption that the Carthaginian society of the Hellenistic period took an interest in sporting competitions and, more broadly, in the Greek model of athletic training as pointed by the archaeological record integrated with textual sources. On the contrary, less easily identifiable is the evidence for the practice of competitive sports and gymnastics in the Phoenician region and in the most ancient phases of the colonial experience, compared with the rich manifestations of this phenomenon in other cultures of the ancient Near East. Although the documentation examined in this paper does not provide enough evidence to allow any final certainty about the existence of sport contests in the Phoenician and Punic world, it cannot be excluded that the current picture may be incomplete due to a lack of research in the Phoenician homeland and in the regions of colonial expansion.

L’interesse per le competizioni sportive e, più in generale, per la formazione atletica di modello greco, sembra oggi validamente presumibile per la società cartaginese d’età ellenistica sulla base di perspicui riscontri nella cultura materiale e delle suggestioni indotte dal dato letterario antico. Molto più complessa, invece, l’individuazione di tracce di attività ginniche e sportive nella regione fenicia e nelle fasi più antiche dell’esperienza coloniale, a fronte delle diverse manifestazioni del fenomeno nelle altre culture del Vicino Oriente antico. Sebbene la documentazione esaminata in questo contributo non permetta di sostenere con certezza l’esistenza di un agonismo sportivo nel mondo fenicio e punico, non si esclude che il quadro attualmente disponibile possa in gran parte dipendere da una carenza di ricerche nella regione fenicia e nelle aree di irradiazione coloniale.

Was there a sporting culture in the Phoenician and Punic World? / Secci, Raimondo. - In: ALBAHRI, ENTRE ORIENTE Y OCCIDENTE. - ISSN 2444-0515. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:(2017), pp. 5-22.

Was there a sporting culture in the Phoenician and Punic World?

SECCI, RAIMONDO
2017

Abstract

There is reasonable presumption that the Carthaginian society of the Hellenistic period took an interest in sporting competitions and, more broadly, in the Greek model of athletic training as pointed by the archaeological record integrated with textual sources. On the contrary, less easily identifiable is the evidence for the practice of competitive sports and gymnastics in the Phoenician region and in the most ancient phases of the colonial experience, compared with the rich manifestations of this phenomenon in other cultures of the ancient Near East. Although the documentation examined in this paper does not provide enough evidence to allow any final certainty about the existence of sport contests in the Phoenician and Punic world, it cannot be excluded that the current picture may be incomplete due to a lack of research in the Phoenician homeland and in the regions of colonial expansion.
2017
Was there a sporting culture in the Phoenician and Punic World? / Secci, Raimondo. - In: ALBAHRI, ENTRE ORIENTE Y OCCIDENTE. - ISSN 2444-0515. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:(2017), pp. 5-22.
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