Kyle Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-61380-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Ancient Cultures

The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the AncientWorld updates Donald G. Kyle's award-winning introductionto this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late RomanEmpire.
* Challenges traditional scholarship on sport andspectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there wereno sports before the ancient Greeks
* Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Romanspectacle and how each culture responded to the other'sentertainment
* Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during theLate Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan gamesand the Roman response
* Covers topics including violence, professionalism insport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship ofspectacle to political structures

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kyle, Donald G.

Über Autor(innen)

Donald G. Kyle is Professor, former Chair of History, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Athletics in Ancient Athens (1987), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell 2007); and co-editor (with Paul Christesen) of A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).