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Item Details
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SPORT AND SPECTACLE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
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| By: |
Donald G. Kyle |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£80.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0631229701 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780631229704 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
8 September, 2006 |
| Series: |
Ancient Cultures |
| Pages: |
424 |
| Description: |
* A readable, illustrated, up-to-date discussion of ancient public, competitive physical performances. * Covers athletics, combat sports, chariot racing, beast fights and gladiators. * Traces the precursors of Greek and Roman sports and spectacles in the Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a readable, up-to-date, illustrated introduction to the history of sport and spectacle in the ancient world from the Ancient Near East through Greek and Hellenistic times and into the Roman Empire. * Covers athletics, combat sports, chariot racing, beast fights and gladiators. * Traces the precursors of Greek and Roman sports and spectacles in the Ancient Near East and the Bronze Age Aegean. * Investigates the origins, nature and meaning of sport, covering issues of violence, professionalism, class, gender and eroticism. * Challenges the notion that Greek sport and Roman spectacle were polar opposites. * Approaches sport and spectacle as overlapping and compatible features of civilized states and empires. |
| Illustrations: |
24 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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