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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
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- Author : Donald G. Kyle
- Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
- Genre : History
- Total Pages : 375 pages
- ISBN : 1118613562
- Release Date : 31 December 2014
- PDF File Size : 16,8 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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