Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781118613566
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 376


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