TY  - BOOK
AU  - Papakonstantinou,Zinon
TI  - Sport in the cultures of the ancient world: new perspectives 
T2  - Sport in the global society
SN  - 9780415497152 (hbk.)
AV  - GV571 .S66 2010
U1  - 796.0901 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Abingdon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sports
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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
ER  -