{"id":2366,"date":"2017-08-28T18:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/paul-christesen\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T01:24:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:24:27","slug":"paul-christesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/paul-christesen\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Christesen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6569 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-1.jpg 768w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-2.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-3.jpg 534w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-4.jpg 696w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-5.jpg 1068w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-6.jpg 487w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/photo-Christesen-7.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Paul Christesen, William R. Kenan Professor of Ancient Greek History in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College, is the author of <em>Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History <\/em>(Cambridge University Press, 2007) and <em>Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n<p>He is also co-editor, with Donald Kyle, of <em>The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity<\/em>, and author of more than 30 articles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6570\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled.jpg 197w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-1.jpg 275w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-2.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6571\" src=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled2-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled2.jpg 196w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled2-1.jpg 275w, http:\/\/thebirthofeverything.com\/authorsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled2-2.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor Christesen is a member of the editorial board of the journal <em>Nikephoros <\/em>and of the Managing Committee at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and has served as Supervising Professor at the International Olympic Academy.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently working with Paul Cartledge of Cambridge University on the <em>Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World<\/em>. His areas of expertise include ancient Greek history (with a particular focus on Sparta), sport history (including the ancient Olympics), and the relationship between sport and political systems.<\/p>\n<p>He regularly speaks about these topics to scholarly and general audiences in the United States and Europe. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, and he is life fellow of Clare Hall at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Christesen, William R. Kenan Professor of Ancient Greek History in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College, is the author of Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 2012). 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