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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Addendum to Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 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 Spectacle, Spectacles as Sport
- References
- 1 Origins and Essences
- Mesopotamian Combat Sports and Running
- Egypt: Hunting and Sporting Pharaohs
- Royal Hunts as a Near Eastern Tradition
- States and Sports, Empires and Spectacles
- References
- 2 Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and Mycenaeans
- Minoan Performances: Rites, Contests, or Spectacles?
- Hittite Contests?
- Mycenaean Contests?
- A Sporting Mediterranean World
- References
- 3 Sport in Homer
- Funeral Games for Patroklos: Prizes and Reconciliation
- The Odyssey: Sport and Returning Home
- Epic Sport as Spectacle
- References
- 4 Archaic Greece
- Athletic Festivals: Types and Terms
- Factors and Features in the Growth of Athletics
- Gymnasiums, Hoplites, and Society
- Nudity, Status, and Democracy
- Men, Boys, and Erotic Pursuits
- The Coming of Age of Greek Sport
- References
- 5 In Search of the Ancient Olympics
- The Olympics of Allusion and Illusion
- Modern Myths and Invented Traditions
- The Quagmire of Olympic Origins: Explanations and Excavations
- References
- 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
- References
- 7 Panhellenic Sacred Crown Games and More
- Pythian Games
- Isthmian Games
- Nemean Games
- Variations: Local or Civic Games
- References
- 8 Athens
- The Panathenaic Games: Sacred and Civic Athletics
- More Athletic Festivals and Athletic Facilities
- The Sociopolitical History of Athenian Sport
- Contestation, Critics, and Popular Attitudes
- References
- 9 Spartan Sport and Physical Education
- Problematic Evidence
- Physical Education: Building the Body Politic
- Spartan Athletics
- Kyniska: Gender, Politics, and Racing Chariots at Olympia
- Not So Strange Greeks