Sport in the cultures of the ancient world :  new perspectives / 
edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou. 
 - Abingdon ;  New York :  Routledge,  2010. 
 - xxiv, 224 p. :  ill., maps ;  26 cm. 
 - Sport in the global society .
 - Sport in the global society. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Contesting ancient Mediterranean sport /  Whence 776? the origin of the date for the first Olympiad /  Pan-hellenism and particularism: Herodotus on sport, Greekness, piety and war /  Sport, war and democracy in classical Athens /  Challenged by Egyptians: Greek sports in the third century BC /  Gladiators in the Greek East: a case study in Romanization /  Gladiators and monomachoi: Greek attitudes to a Roman "cultural performance" /  The Greek ephebate in the Roman period /  Observations on boys, girls, youths and age categories in Roman sports and spectacles /  Thomas Scanlon --  Paul Christesen --  Donald Kyle --  David M. Pritchard --  Sofie Remijsen --  Christian Mann --  Michael J. Carter --  Nigel M. Kennell --  Nigel B. Crowther. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415497152 (hbk.) 0415497159 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA961712  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>015296638  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sports--History<br/>Sports--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV571  / .S66 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.0901