Sport and spectacle in the ancient world
| 1. Verfasser: |
Kyle, Donald G.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Malden, MA ; Oxford :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xv, 403 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ancient cultures (Malden, Mass.)
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| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 14. Late republic and Augustus : spectacles, politics, and empire
- The meaning of gladiatorial combat : infamy and virtue
- Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar : magnificence and munificence
- Augustus : unification and imperial rule through shows
- 15. Spectacle, sport, and the Roman Empire
- Emperors, spectacles, and scandals
- Days at the track : chariot racing
- Imperial triumphs
- Gladiators, arenas, and empire
- Beast hunts : nature and empire
- Spectacular executions : beasts, criminals, and social order
- Greek games in the Roman Empire
- Assimilation and accommodation
- Conclusion : ancient sport and 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
- 9. Spartan sport and physical education
- Physical education : building the body politic
- Spartan athletics
- Kyniska and spartan chariot racing at Olympia
- Not so strange Greeks
- 10. Greek athletes : myths, motives, and mobility
- Athletic stars and stories
- Pindar on victory and glory
- Athletes and social history
- Democratization and athletics
- 11. Females and Greek athletics
- Girls' races and the Heraia
- Women at the male Olympics?
- Virgin Olympic spectators?
- 12. Macedon and Hellenistic sport and spectacle
- Philip II : Proclaiming Greekness through games
- Alexander the Great : becoming Near Eastern through spectacles
- Hellenistic sport and spectacle
- The Hellenistic model
- 13. The Roman republic : festivals, celebrations, and games
- Etruscan sport and spectacle : Greek gifts and Roman roots?
- Roman festivals and entertainments
- Chariot racing at Rome
- Triumphs : spectacles of military victory
- Hunts and beasts : conquests and games
- Gladiators : rites and combats
- Romans and Greek sport
- Roman-Hellenistic spectacular discourse
- 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
