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The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire.

• Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks

• Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment

• Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response

• Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures

Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 26/12/2014
    ISBN13: 9781118613566, 978-1118613566
    ISBN10: 1118613562

    Number of Pages: 376

    Non Fiction , History

    Description

    The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire.

    • Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks

    • Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment

    • Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response

    • Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures

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