Sport And Spectacle In The Ancient World Paperback 2nd Edition
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Donald G. Kyle
Book 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
ISBN-10
1118613562
ISBN-13
9781118613566
Language
English
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date
20-Mar-11
Number of Pages
376
About the Author
Donald G. Kyle is Professor, former Chair of History, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Athletics in Ancient Athens (1987), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell 2007); and co-editor (with Paul Christesen) of A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).
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2nd Edition