Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415641166 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 224 str.

Zinon Papakonstantinou

Opis

From the early origins of the ancient Olympics to gladiatorial shows in late antiquity, these chapters, written by scholars on ancient sport, provide insights into key aspects of ancient sport in its historical, social and ideological setting.

Spis treści

1. Prologue: Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World  Zinon Papakonstantinou  2. Contesting Ancient Mediterranean Sport  Thomas Scanlon  3. Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad  Paul Christesen  4. Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety, and War  Donald Kyle  5. Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens  David Pritchard  6. Challenged by Egyptians:  Greek Sports in the Third century BC  Sofie Remijsen  7. Gladiators in the Greek east: a Case Study in Romanization  Christian Mann  8. Gladiators and Monomachoi: Greek Attitudes to a Roman 'Cultural Performance'  Michael Carter  9. The Greek Ephebate in the Roman Period  Nigel Kennell 10. Observations on Boys, Girls, Youths and Age Categories in Roman Sports and Spectacles  Nigel Crowther  11. Epilogue: Some Perspectives on Ancient Sport  Zinon Papakonstantinou

O autorze

Zinon Papakonstantinou is Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of Washington. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece, Duckworth: London 2008 and articles on Greek law, sport and commensality.