Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
von Donald G. Kyle
376 Seiten
Sprache English
2. Auflage
2014 John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 978-1-118-61380-1
Besprechung
"This is without a doubt the single best overview of ancient sport. Donald Kyle delivers a clear, lively, and detailed account that reflects his unmatched erudition and insight."- Paul Christesen, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College "Kyle furnishes a sophisticated and lucid account of sport and spectacle as important cultural phenomena in antiquity. Especially insightful is his treatment of both Greek and Roman sport as spectacle. Most welcome too are the relevant parallels and significant differences he observes between ancient and modern athletics." - Hugh Lee, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park "An excellent, wide-ranging survey of ancient sport. No other introductory volume combines the study of Greek and Roman sport and spectacle so effectively. This second edition adds a wealth of new material to the original version." - Jason König, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Hauptbeschreibung
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
Biografische Anmerkung zu den Verfassern
Donald G. Kyle is Professor, former Chair of History, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Athletics in Ancient Athens (1987), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell 2007); and co-editor (with Paul Christesen) of A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).