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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World
By:Donald G. Kyle
Published on 2014-11-05 by John Wiley & Sons

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

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Book which was published by John Wiley & Sons since 2014-11-05 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781118613801 and ISBN 10 Code is 1118613805

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