dc.contributor.advisor | Brownell, Susan-Elaine | |
dc.contributor.author | Pang, Nianliang | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-14T09:37:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-14T09:37:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-12 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://amitos.library.uop.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/4809 | |
dc.description.abstract | This research conducts a comparison between the Olympic Games in ancient Greece
and ritual archery in early China before 200 BC, illustrating the similarities and
differences between the two institutionalized cultural activities in terms of their
trans-cultural comparison in regard to their origin, development, competitors,
administration, process and function.
Cross cultural comparison is a research method to comprehend heterogeneous culture
through systematic comparisons of cultural factors across as wide domain. The ritual
archery in early China and the Olympic Games in ancient Greece were both long-lived,
institutionalized physical competitive activities integrating competition, rituals and
music with communication in the ancient period. To compare the two programs can
make us better understand the isolated civilizations in that period. In examining the
cultural factors from the two programs, I find that both were originally connected with
religion and legendary heroes in myths and experienced a process of secularization;
both were closely intertwined with politics in antiquity, connected physical
competitions with moral education, bore significant educational functions and played an
important role in respective society. The administrators of the two cultural programs
had reputable social rank and were professional at managing programs with systematic
administrative knowledge and procedures. In addition, I also explore that there existed
different concepts of the body and competition opinions between ancient Greeks and
Chinese, which mainly resulted from the respective society’s geographical, political,
social and educational differences.
This thesis is divided into six parts. The first three parts introduce the purpose and
reasons of conducting this research and present a literature review of related research
achievements, as well as the research approach. The fourth part respectively presents
overviews of ancient Greece and the Olympic Games before 200 BC, and early China
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and ritual archery before 200 BC. The fifth part is focused on the comparison of
different cultural factors between the two cultural programs. This research arrives at the
conclusions in the sixth part with an in-depth analysis and discussion. The sources for
this research include the ancient classical works, books of classical studies on both
China and Greece, papers from academic journals and some press and internet articles
and papers. | el |
dc.format.extent | 110 σ. | el |
dc.language.iso | en | el |
dc.publisher | Πανεπιστήμιο Πελοποννήσου | el |
dc.rights | Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ελλάδα | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr/ | * |
dc.subject | Olympics - Ancient Greece - China | el |
dc.subject | Olympics - Ancient Greece - Chiana - History | el |
dc.subject | Olympics - Study and teaching - Ancient Greece - China | el |
dc.subject | Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες - Αρχαία Ελλάδα - Κίνα | el |
dc.subject | Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες - Αρχαία Ελλάδα - Κίνα - Ιστορία | el |
dc.subject | Ολυμπιακοί αγώνες - Μελέτη και διδασκαλία - Αρχαία Ελλάδα - Κίνα | el |
dc.title | The Olympic Games and Ritual Archery: A Comparative Study of Sport between Ancient Greece and Early China(—200 BC) | el |
dc.type | Μεταπτυχιακή διπλωματική εργασία | el |
dc.contributor.committee | Petermandl, Werner | |
dc.contributor.committee | Παπακωνσταντίνου, Ζήνωνας | |
dc.contributor.department | Τμήμα Οργάνωσης και Διαχείρισης Αθλητισμού | el |
dc.contributor.faculty | Σχολή Επιστημών Ανθρώπινης Κίνησης και Ποιότητας Ζωής | el |
dc.contributor.master | Ολυμπιακές Σπουδές, Ολυμπιακή Παιδεία, Οργάνωση και Διαχείριση Ολυμπιακών Εκδηλώσεων | el |