David M. Pritchard

Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007338
• ISBN-10: 110700733X
• Artikelnr.: 36138460

Autorenporträt

David M. Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. He has held research fellowships at Macquarie University, Sydney, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Sydney. In 2013 Dr Pritchard was the Charles Gordon Mackay Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (2003). He is currently finishing a monograph on public spending in democratic Athens.

Inhaltsangabe

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.