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Sport in the cultures of the ancient world : new perspectives / edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou.

Contributor(s): Papakonstantinou, ZinonMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global societyPublication details: Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010. Description: xxiv, 224 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cmISBN: 9780415497152 (hbk.); 0415497159 (hbk.)Subject(s): Sports -- History | Sports -- Social aspectsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Sport in the cultures of the ancient world.DDC classification: 796.0901 LOC classification: GV571 | .S66 2010
Contents:
Contesting ancient Mediterranean sport / Thomas Scanlon -- Whence 776? the origin of the date for the first Olympiad / Paul Christesen -- Pan-hellenism and particularism: Herodotus on sport, Greekness, piety and war / Donald Kyle -- Sport, war and democracy in classical Athens / David M. Pritchard -- Challenged by Egyptians: Greek sports in the third century BC / Sofie Remijsen -- Gladiators in the Greek East: a case study in Romanization / Christian Mann -- Gladiators and monomachoi: Greek attitudes to a Roman "cultural performance" / Michael J. Carter -- The Greek ephebate in the Roman period / Nigel M. Kennell -- Observations on boys, girls, youths and age categories in Roman sports and spectacles / Nigel B. Crowther.
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Shelf 37 - Main Room 		G1f PAPAK 30281 Not for loan BOOKS-000000023207

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contesting ancient Mediterranean sport / Thomas Scanlon -- Whence 776? the origin of the date for the first Olympiad / Paul Christesen -- Pan-hellenism and particularism: Herodotus on sport, Greekness, piety and war / Donald Kyle -- Sport, war and democracy in classical Athens / David M. Pritchard -- Challenged by Egyptians: Greek sports in the third century BC / Sofie Remijsen -- Gladiators in the Greek East: a case study in Romanization / Christian Mann -- Gladiators and monomachoi: Greek attitudes to a Roman "cultural performance" / Michael J. Carter -- The Greek ephebate in the Roman period / Nigel M. Kennell -- Observations on boys, girls, youths and age categories in Roman sports and spectacles / Nigel B. Crowther.