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Competition in the ancient world /
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their time engaged in or thinking about competition. Organised competitions - with rules, audiences and winners - included the Olympic and gladiatorial games. Informal, indefinite, often violent, competition involved fundamental goals such as power, wealth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Swansea :
Classical Press of Wales, The,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Competition in comparative perspective. Rivalry in history : an introduction / Hans van Wees ; Fame and prizes : competition and war in the Neo-Assyrian empire / Karen Radner
- Competition in Greece. Ancient Greek competition : a modern construct? / Christoph Ulf ; Conflict and community in the Iliad / William Allan and Douglas Cairns ; Peer-polity interaction and cultural competition in sixth-century Greece / Sara Forsdyke ; Competitive delights : the social effects of the expanded programme of contests in post-Kleisthenic Athens / Nick Fisher
- Competition in Rome. Lottery and elections : containing elite competition in Venice and Rome / Henrik Mouritsen ; Keeping up with the Joneses : competitive display within the Roman villa landscape / Hannah Platts ; Competitiveness and anti-competitiveness in Philostratus' Lives of the Sophists / Jason König.