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UNINA9910452971903321 |
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Pritchard David <1970-> |
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Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens / / by David M. Pritchard [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-88826-9 |
1-139-79377-2 |
1-139-78339-4 |
1-139-77940-0 |
1-139-78239-8 |
1-139-03051-5 |
1-139-77636-3 |
1-283-74633-6 |
1-139-77788-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sports - Greece - History |
Athletics - Greece - History |
Sports - Social aspects - Greece - History |
Athletics - Social aspects - Greece - History |
Democracy - Greece - Athens - History |
Athens (Greece) Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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1. Problems, models and sources -- 2. Athletic participation and education -- 3. The democratic support of athletics -- 4. Athletics in satyric drama -- 5. The common culture of athletics and war -- 6. The democratisation of war -- 7. Conclusion: athletic ephebes. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an unrivalled |
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