Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds, Volume 2: Greek Athletic Identities and Roman Sports and Spectacle

Herausgeber: Scanlon, Thomas F.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the identity of Greek athletes and the place of Greek games in the Roman era to forms, functions, and venues of Roman spectacles, this second volume of Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds contains eleven articles and chapters of enduring importance to the study of ancient Greek and Roman sport.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Readings in Classical S
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• New
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 519g
• ISBN-13: 9780198703785
• ISBN-10: 0198703783
• Artikelnr.: 40397998

Autorenporträt

Thomas Scanlon is a Professor of Classics and director of the Programme in Comparative Ancient Civilizations at the University of California, Riverside.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* Greek Sports: Identity, Status, and the Athlete
* Introduction
* 1: H. W. Pleket: On the Sociology of Ancient Sport
* 2: D. C. Young: Professionalism in Archaic and Classical Greek
Athletics
* 3: W. Decker: Gymnasion
* 4: T. Scanlon: Racing for Hera
* Greek Sports in the Roman Era
* Introduction
* 5: C. Mann: Greek Sport and Roman Indentity: the certamina athletarum
at Rome
* 6: U. Sinn: Olympia and the curia athletarum in Rome
* Etruscan and Roman Sports and Spectacle
* Introduction
* 7: G. Gori: Etruscan Sports and Festivals
* 8: K. Welch: The Roman Arena in Late-Republican Italy: a New
Interpretation
* 9: M. Carter: Gladiatorial Ranking and the SC de Pretiis Gladiatorium
Minuendis (CIL II 6278 = ILS 5163)
* 10: D. G. Kyle: Animal Spectacles in Ancient Rome: Meat and Meaning
* 11: H. A. Harris: The Organization of Roman Racing
* Bibliography
* Index