Donald G. Kyle

Sport and Spectacle 2e P

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Ancient Cultures
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A118613560
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781118613566
• ISBN-10: 1118613562
• Artikelnr.: 41521941

Autorenporträt

Kyle D'Aoust has been programming for about 10 years. In 2004, at the age of 14, he taught himself the C++ language. By the end of high school, he had learned Visual Basic and JavaScript as well. In college, he majored in game production and specialized in the Unity engine using C#.After graduating from college, Kyle started his career with gamifying software. He is currently working as a Serious Games Developer at Quicken Loans, creating games used as training material.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix List of Figures xii List of Maps xv List of
Tables xvi Introduction: Ancient Sport History 1 Why Sport History? 4 Word
Games: Conceptualizing Sport and Spectacle 7 Challenges: Evidence,
Chronology, and Modernism 9 Sports and Spectacles as Cultural Performances
14 Greece and Rome: Positive and Negative Classicism 15 Sports as
Spectacle, Spectacles as Sport 16 1 Origins and Essences: Early Sport and
Spectacle 22 Mesopotamian Combat Sports and Running 24 Egypt: Hunting and
Sporting Pharaohs 26 Royal Hunts as a Near Eastern Tradition 32 States and
Sports, Empires and Spectacles 33 2 Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and
Mycenaeans 37 Minoan Performances: Rites, Contests, or Spectacles? 37
Hittite Contests? 44 Mycenaean Contests? 46 A Sporting Mediterranean World
49 3 Sport in Homer: Contests, Prizes, and Honor 53 Homer and His World 54
Values and Competition 55 Prizes and Spectatorship 56 Funeral Games for
Patroklos: Prizes and Reconciliation 56 The Odyssey: Sport and Returning
Home 63 Epic Sport as Spectacle 67 4 Archaic Greece: Athletics in an Age of
Change 70 Athletic Festivals: Types and Terms 72 Factors and Features in
the Growth of Athletics 73 Gymnasiums, Hoplites, and Society 81 Nudity,
Status, and Democracy 82 Men, Boys, and Erotic Pursuits 85 The Coming of
Age of Greek Sport 87 5 In Search of the Ancient Olympics 91 The Olympics
of Allusion and Illusion 92 Modern Myths and Invented Traditions 95 The
Quagmire of Olympic Origins: Explanations and Excavations 97 6 Ancient
Olympia and Its Games 107 The Physical Context: Sanctuary and Facilities
108 The Olympic Festival: Operation and Administration 111 The Program of
Contests 114 Olympia and Spectacle: Politics, Problems, and Performances
123 7 Panhellenic Sacred Crown Games and More 132 Pythian Games 133
Isthmian Games 136 Nemean Games 138 Variations: Local or Civic Games 143 8
Athens: City of Contests and Prizes 147 The Panathenaic Games: Sacred and
Civic Athletics 148 More Athletic Festivals and Athletic Facilities 159 The
Sociopolitical History of Athenian Sport 161 Contestation, Critics, and
Popular Attitudes 165 9 Spartan Sport and Physical Education 175
Problematic Evidence 176 Physical Education: Building the Body Politic 176
Spartan Athletics 181 Kyniska: Gender, Politics, and Racing Chariots at
Olympia 184 Not So Strange Greeks 185 10 Athletes in Greek Society: Heroes,
Motives, Access 190 Athletic Stars and Stories 191 Pindar on Victory and
Glory 194 Athletes, Social History, and Democratization 197 The Lower Half
of Society: Not Excluded But Not Competing? 202 Meritocratic Athletics in
Practice 203 Conclusion 204 11 Females and Greek Sport 209 The Ancient
Evidence: Problems and Perspectives 210 Early Greece: Epic and Myth 211
Spartan Female Sport 211 Athenian Girls' Races or Rites 212 The Heraia at
Olympia 212 The Olympic Ban on Women 214 Hellenistic Females and
Competition 215 Female Athletics in the Roman Empire 217 Conclusion: from
Rites to Athletics 219 12 Macedon and Hellenistic Sport and Spectacle 222
Greeks and Persians 223 Philip II: Proclaiming Greekness through Games 224
Alexander The Great: Conquests and Spectacular Games 227 Hellenistic Sport
and Spectacle 232 The Hellenistic Legacy 239 13 The Roman Republic:
Festivals, Celebrations, and Games 243 Etruscan Sport and Spectacle:
Ethnicity, Greek Gifts, Roman Roots? 244 Roman Festivals and Entertainments
247 Chariot Racing at Rome 248 Triumphs: Spectacles of Military Victory 249
Hunts and Beasts: Conquests and Games 253 Gladiators: Roman Rites and
Combats 257 Early Romans and Greek Sport 261 Roman-Hellenistic Spectacular
Discourse 263 14 Late Republic and Augustus: Spectacles, Popular Politics,
and Empire 268 The Meaning of Gladiatorial Combat: Infamy and Virtue 269
Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar: Magnificence and Munificence 273 Augustus:
Consolidation and Imperial Rule Through Shows 276 15 Spectacle, Sport, and
the Roman Empire 289 Emperors, Spectacles, and Scandals 290 Days at the
Track: Chariot Racing 292 Imperial Triumphs 297 Gladiators, Arenas, and
Empire 298 Beast Hunts: Nature and Empire 309 Spectacular Executions:
Criminals, Beasts, and Social Order 312 Greek Games in the Roman Empire 314
Professional Athletes: Guilds, Prizes, and Hadrian 319 Assimilation and
Accommodation 322 16 Later Sports and Spectacles: Romans, Christians, and
Byzantines 329 Christian Opposition to Pagan Spectacles 329 Roman Reactions
to Christians 331 The Waning of Institutionalized Shows in the West 335
Chariot Racing in the Christian Byzantine Empire 338 Conclusion: Ancient
Sport and Spectacle 343 Index 348