Sport And Spectacle In The Ancient World (Ancient Cultures)

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

• | Author: Donald G. Kyle
• | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• | Publication Date: Jan 07, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1118613562
• | ISBN-13: 9781118613566