LEADER 05198nam 2200649 450 001 9910459875003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-61380-5 010 $a1-118-61567-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000277393 035 $a(EBL)1834779 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001368845 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12592449 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001368845 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11289446 035 $a(PQKB)11411512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16049231 035 $a(PQKB)22908044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1834779 035 $a(DLC) 2014032263 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1834779 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10986638 035 $a(OCoLC)895431395 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000277393 100 $a20140627d2015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSport and spectacle in the ancient world /$fDonald G. Kyle 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom :$cJohn Wiley and Sons, Inc.,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (378 p.) 225 1 $aAncient Cultures ;$vv.4 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-118-61356-2 327 $aSport and Spectacle in the Ancient World; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Ancient Sport History; Why Sport History?; Why ancient sport history?; Word Games: Conceptualizing Sport and Spectacle; Challenges: Evidence, Chronology, and Modernism; Greek evidence; Roman evidence; Chronology: dates and cycles; Reception and modernism; Sports and Spectacles as Cultural Performances; Greece and Rome: Positive and Negative Classicism; Sports as Spectacle, Spectacles as Sport; Notes; References 327 $aChapter 1 Origins and Essences: Early Sport and SpectacleHunting rituals and sport; Agonism: the unique Greek?; Mesopotamian Combat Sports and Running; Egypt: Hunting and Sporting Pharaohs; Evidence and imagery; Sed festivals; Beni Hasan and displays; Sporting pharaohs of the New Kingdom; Egyptian athletics?; Egyptian hunting; Royal Hunts as a Near Eastern Tradition; States and Sports, Empires and Spectacles; Notes; References; Chapter 2 Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and Mycenaeans; Minoan Performances: Rites, Contests, or Spectacles?; The boxer rhyton and runner's ring; Bull sports 327 $aTheseus and CreteBull games abroad; Hittite Contests?; Mycenaean Contests?; A Sporting Mediterranean World; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Sport in Homer: Contests, Prizes, and Honor; Homer and His World; Values and Competition; Prizes and Spectatorship; Funeral Games for Patroklos: Prizes and Reconciliation; Contests, winners, and losers; The Odyssey: Sport and Returning Home; Games in Phaiakia; Iros; The bow contest; Epic Sport as Spectacle; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Archaic Greece: Athletics in an Age of Change; Athletic Festivals: Types and Terms 327 $aFactors and Features in the Growth of AthleticsEpic and Olympic authority; Archaic games and city-state prizes; Emerging city-states: regionalism and rivalry; Colonization: a wider world of sport; Tyrants: patronage and popular programs; Gymnasiums, Hoplites, and Society; Nudity, Status, and Democracy; Men, Boys, and Erotic Pursuits; The Coming of Age of Greek Sport; Notes; References; Chapter 5 In Search of the Ancient Olympics; The Olympics of Allusion and Illusion; Coubertin as an Olympic hero; Modern Myths and Invented Traditions 327 $aThe Quagmire of Olympic Origins: Explanations and ExcavationsOlympic mythography; Modern theories; Hippias and the Olympic Victor List; Archaeological insights; Deconstructing and reconstructing early Olympia; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Ancient Olympia and Its Games; The Physical Context: Sanctuary and Facilities; The Olympic Festival: Operation and Administration; Prize wreaths and nudity; Eligibility; The Program of Contests; Footraces; Pentathlon; Combat sports; Equestrian events; Olympia and Spectacle: Politics, Problems, and Performances; Peace, politics, and Panhellenism 327 $aOpportunism and corruption 330 $a The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle's award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other's entertainment Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and t 410 0$aAncient Cultures 606 $aSports$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSports$xHistory. 676 $a796.093 700 $aKyle$b Donald G.$0158772 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459875003321 996 $aSport and spectacle in the ancient world$9855953 997 $aUNINA