Sport and spectacle in the ancient world /
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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Έκδοση: |
Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Σειρά: | Ancient cultures
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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
- 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
