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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World

By Kyle , Donald G

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2014
ISBN
1118613562, 978-1-118-61356-6
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (15120043 bytes)
Series
Ancient Cultures
Edition
Second edition
Pages
376\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. • Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks • Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment • Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response • Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures

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