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Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New)
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Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens (Hardcover, New)
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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 program of local sporting festivals on
which they spent staggering sums of money. They also shielded
sportsmen from the public criticism which was otherwise normally
directed towards the elite and its conspicuous activities. This
book is a bold and novel exploration of this apparent
contradiction, which examines three of the fundamental aspects of
Athens in the classical period - democratic politics, public
commitment to sport and constant warfare - and is essential reading
for all of those who are interested in Greek sport, Athenian
democracy and its waging of war.
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