Anatolian Cultural Heritage: Ancient Stadiums Related to Sport or Physical Culture?

Aylin Zekioğlu ,Naci Kalkan

doi:10.13189/ujer.2019.070114

Abstract

Anatolia has hosted many civilizations and has made great contributions to the history of humanity in scientific, social and cultural terms. Two of the most important cultures that make up this cultural heritage in Anatolia are Hellenic and Roman culture. The material and intangible cultural heritage of this turnover is still alive in Anatolia, which is home to the Hellenistic and Roman cultures. In our work, we have studied material cultural heritage, stadiums of Hellenistic and Roman culture. The aim of these stadiums is to assess the architecture, culture, lifestyles, social rules of different periods on a case appealing to large communities such as sports. This study, which deals with the effects of the legacies left by the civilizations that lived in the Anatolian geography in the historical perspective of the sport, also aims at shedding light on the sportive activities made at that time at the same time. The stadiums studied in the study include Didyma, Ephesos, Magnesia, Miletus, Priene, Smyrna, Aphrodisias, Labranda, Blaundos, Nysa, Sardeis, Arykanda, Kadyanda, Letoon, Pergamon, Aspendos, Sillyon, Perge, Aizanoi, Laodikeia, Selge are stadiums located in the ancient cities.

Highlights

Society refers to an entity that consists of individuals and groups, exceeding their sum [1]
The aim of this study is to present the cultural heritage and the ancient stadiums of Anatolia and to shed light on the sportive activities made at that time
The Greek used the stadiums for competitions, Romans used them for wild animal fights and gladiator shows

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Society refers to an entity that consists of individuals and groups, exceeding their sum [1]. Culture, people and society together express production. This relationship; we can express it as the cultural heritage of all the material and intangible accumulation of the material that was transferred from the past. In addition to the material cultural heritage, the intangible cultural heritage is important in shaping the cultivated culture, making the humanities, customs, traditions, customs and beliefs permanent. These tangible and intangible cultural elements can be observed directly, with 118 currently being preserved ancient city in Turkey and the Anatolian geography of our world is of great importance

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