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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sport and spectacle in the ancient world
  name:
    name part: Kyle, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Malden, MA
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Blackwell Pub.
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 403 σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 24 εκ.
  table of contents: Introduction : ancient sport history -- Why sport history? -- Word games : conceptualizing sport and spectacle -- Challenges : evidence, chronology, and modernism -- Sports and spectacles as cultural performances -- Greece and Rome : positive and negative classicism -- Sports as spectacles, spectacles as sport -- 1. Origins and essences : early sport and spectacle -- Mesopotamian combat sports and running -- Egypt : from hunting to sporting pharaohs -- Royal hunts as a Near Eastern tradition -- States and sports, empires and spectacles -- 2. Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and Mycenaeans -- Minoan performances : rites, contests or spectacles? -- Hittite contests? -- Mycenaean contests? -- A sporting Mediterranean world -- 3. Sport in Homer : contests, prizes, and honor -- Funeral games for Patroklos : prizes and reconciliation -- The Odyssey : sport and returning home -- Epic sport as spectacle --
  table of contents: 4. Archaic Greece : athletics in an age of change -- Factors in the growth of athletics -- Nudity, democracy, and Eros -- Funeral games and city-state prizes -- The coming of age of Greek sport -- 5. In search of the Ancient Olympics -- The Olympics of illusion and allusion -- Modern myths and invented traditions -- The quagmire of Olympic origins : explanations and excavations -- 6. Ancient Olympia and its games -- The physical context : sanctuary and facilities -- The Olympic festival : operation and administration -- The program of contests -- Olympia and spectacle : politics, problems, and performances -- 7. Panhellenic sacred crown games -- Pythian games -- Isthmian games -- Nemean games -- Panhellenic variations and more -- 8. Athens : city of contests and prizes -- The Panathenaic games : sacred and civic athletics -- Other athletic festivals -- Athletic facilities -- Politics, patronage, and sport -- Athenian athletes and athletes at Athens -- Critics and popular attitudes --
  target audience: specialized
  note: Donald G. Kyle.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές (σ. [377]-388) και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Αθλήματα
    topic: Ιστορία
  classification: 796.093 8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ancient cultures
  identifier: 0631229701 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 063122971X (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780631229711 (pbk.)
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 051220
    record change date: 20210519152159.0
    record identifier: 14205688
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre