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Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World New Perspectives

Edited By Zinon Papakonstantinou Copyright 2010
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge
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Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games. In recent years, the continuous re-assessment of old and new evidence in conjunction... Read more

Zinon Papakonstantinou (editor, University of Washington), "Prologue: Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World"

Paul Christesen (Dartmouth College), "Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad"

Donald Kyle (University of Texas, Arlington), "Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety, and War"

David Pritchard (University of Queensland), "Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens"

Sofie Remijsen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), "Challenged by Egyptians:  Greek Sports in the Third century BC"

Christian Mann (Brown University), "Gladiators in the Greek east: a Case Study in Romanization"

Michael Carter (Brock University), "Gladiators and Monomachoi: Greek Attitudes to a Roman 'Cultural Performance'"

Nigel Kennell (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, International Centre for Hellenic and Mediterranean Studies) "The Greek Ephebate in the Roman Period"

Nigel Crowther (University of Western Ontario), "Observations on Boys, Girls, Youths and Age Categories in Roman Sports and Spectacles"

Zinon Papakonstantinou (University of Washington), "Epilogue: Some Perspectives on Ancient Sport"

Biography

Zinon Papakonstantinou is Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of Washington. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece, Duckworth: London 2008 and articles on Greek law, sport and commensality.

"The present collection of essays appeared as a separate issue of the International Journal of Sport History in 2009 and is now published within the series Sport in the Global Society. ...the quality is outstanding. All of them are very informative; each one is complemented by an extensive bibliography on the topic discussed. The essays are written by some of the most important and active scholars in the field. The collection will be of great interest to students and to classical scholars who do not work on sport as their main area, as well as to the non-classicist, sport specialist." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2010 
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