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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Ancient Cultures Book 5) by Kyle, Donald G. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 • Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response • Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures

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Author

Kyle, Donald G.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781118613566

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Anthropology