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A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE
to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome's celebratory
games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity
almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths, monumental
arenas, and circuses for chariot racing were constructed, and
athletic contests proliferated. Sports-themed household objects
were very popular, whilst the exploits of individual athletes,
gladiators, and charioteers were immortalized in poetry, monuments,
and the mosaic floors of the wealthy. This rich sporting culture
attests to the importance of leisure among the middle and upper
classes of the Greco-Roman world, but by 600 CE rising costs,
barbarian invasions, and Christianity had swept it all away. The 6
volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first
comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering
all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social,
cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes
covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and
sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order;
conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation;
minds, bodies and identities; representation. Paul Christesen is
Professor at Dartmouth College, USA. Charles Stocking is Associate
Professor at Western University, Canada. Volume 1 in the Cultural
History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson,
and John McClelland
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