{"product_id":"sport-and-spectacle-in-the-ancient-world-paperback-softback-9781118613566","title":"Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781118613566","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSport and Spectacle in the Ancient World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”- \u003ci\u003ePaul Christesen, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\" - \u003ci\u003eHugh Lee, Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Maryland, College Park\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003ci\u003eJason König, School of Classics, University of St Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDonald G. Kyle (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781118613566, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 December 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e384 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.1 x 18.5 x 2 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of \u003ci\u003eSport and Spectacle in the Ancient World\u003c\/i\u003e updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e• Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Maps xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables xvi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Ancient Sport History 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Sport History? 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWord Games: Conceptualizing Sport and Spectacle 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges: Evidence, Chronology, and Modernism 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSports and Spectacles as Cultural Performances 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreece and Rome: Positive and Negative Classicism 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSports as Spectacle, Spectacles as Sport 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Origins and Essences: Early Sport and Spectacle 22\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMesopotamian Combat Sports and Running 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEgypt: Hunting and Sporting Pharaohs 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoyal Hunts as a Near Eastern Tradition 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStates and Sports, Empires and Spectacles 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and Mycenaeans 37\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinoan Performances: Rites, Contests, or Spectacles? 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHittite Contests? 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMycenaean Contests? 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Sporting Mediterranean World 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Sport in Homer: Contests, Prizes, and Honor 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomer and His World 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValues and Competition 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrizes and Spectatorship 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFuneral Games for Patroklos: Prizes and Reconciliation 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Odyssey: Sport and Returning Home 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpic Sport as Spectacle 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Archaic Greece: Athletics in an Age of Change 70\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAthletic Festivals: Types and Terms 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFactors and Features in the Growth of Athletics 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGymnasiums, Hoplites, and Society 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNudity, Status, and Democracy 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMen, Boys, and Erotic Pursuits 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Coming of Age of Greek Sport 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 In Search of the Ancient Olympics 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Olympics of Allusion and Illusion 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModern Myths and Invented Traditions 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Quagmire of Olympic Origins: Explanations and Excavations 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Ancient Olympia and Its Games 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Physical Context: Sanctuary and Facilities 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Olympic Festival: Operation and Administration 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Program of Contests 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOlympia and Spectacle: Politics, Problems, and Performances 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Panhellenic Sacred Crown Games and More 132\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePythian Games 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIsthmian Games 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNemean Games 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVariations: Local or Civic Games 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Athens: City of Contests and Prizes 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Panathenaic Games: Sacred and Civic Athletics 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Athletic Festivals and Athletic Facilities 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sociopolitical History of Athenian Sport 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContestation, Critics, and Popular Attitudes 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Spartan Sport and Physical Education 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProblematic Evidence 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysical Education: Building the Body Politic 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpartan Athletics 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKyniska: Gender, Politics, and Racing Chariots at Olympia 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot So Strange Greeks 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Athletes in Greek Society: Heroes, Motives, Access 190\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAthletic Stars and Stories 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePindar on Victory and Glory 194\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAthletes, Social History, and Democratization 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lower Half of Society: Not Excluded But Not Competing? 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMeritocratic Athletics in Practice 203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Females and Greek Sport 209\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ancient Evidence: Problems and Perspectives 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Greece: Epic and Myth 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpartan Female Sport 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAthenian Girls’ Races or Rites 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Heraia at Olympia 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Olympic Ban on Women 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHellenistic Females and Competition 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFemale Athletics in the Roman Empire 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: from Rites to Athletics 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Macedon and Hellenistic Sport and Spectacle 222\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreeks and Persians 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhilip II: Proclaiming Greekness through Games 224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander The Great: Conquests and Spectacular Games 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHellenistic Sport and Spectacle 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hellenistic Legacy 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Roman Republic: Festivals, Celebrations, and Games 243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEtruscan Sport and Spectacle: Ethnicity, Greek Gifts, Roman Roots? 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Festivals and Entertainments 247\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChariot Racing at Rome 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTriumphs: Spectacles of Military Victory 249\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHunts and Beasts: Conquests and Games 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGladiators: Roman Rites and Combats 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Romans and Greek Sport 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman-Hellenistic Spectacular Discourse 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Late Republic and Augustus: Spectacles, Popular Politics, and Empire 268\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Meaning of Gladiatorial Combat: Infamy and Virtue 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSulla, Pompey, and Caesar: Magnificence and Munificence 273\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAugustus: Consolidation and Imperial Rule Through Shows 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15 Spectacle, Sport, and the Roman Empire 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmperors, Spectacles, and Scandals 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDays at the Track: Chariot Racing 292\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial Triumphs 297\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGladiators, Arenas, and Empire 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeast Hunts: Nature and Empire 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpectacular Executions: Criminals, Beasts, and Social Order 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreek Games in the Roman Empire 314\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessional Athletes: Guilds, Prizes, and Hadrian 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAssimilation and Accommodation 322\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16 Later Sports and Spectacles: Romans, Christians, and Byzantines 329\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian Opposition to Pagan Spectacles 329\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoman Reactions to Christians 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Waning of Institutionalized Shows in the West 335\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChariot Racing in the Christian Byzantine Empire 338\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Ancient Sport and Spectacle 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 348\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475075887384,"sku":"9781118613566","price":38.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781118613566.jpg?v=1785804227","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sport-and-spectacle-in-the-ancient-world-paperback-softback-9781118613566","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}