Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Volume 2
Greek Athletic Identities and Roman Sports and Spectacle
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- Edition number and title :Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 July 2014
- ISBN 9780198703785
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages402 pages
- Size 216x141x24 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54: 38 halftones, 16 line 0
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Short description:
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.
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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, a field located at a crucial intersection of social history, archaeology, literature, and other aspects of those cultures.
The studies have been updated with addenda by the original authors, and four of the articles that were originally published in German have been translated into English here for the first time. The studies, selected for breadth and importance of historical topics, include: the economics, status, gender, and training of ancient athletes; the place of Greek athletes in the Roman era; the evolution of Roman games from Etruscan customs and of the Roman arena from earlier traditions; the monetary prices of gladiators; the role of animal games in Rome; and the Roman team sport of chariot racing.
A companion first volume complements this one with studies on Greek sport in its epic, heroic, and Bronze Age origins; the ancient Olympics in its relation to religion, politics, and diversity of competitors; Greek events in track and field and equestrian events. The articles in both volumes offer an excellent starting point to inspire newcomers to the study of ancient sport, and to give students and scholars an informative set of models for present knowledge and future research.
These volumes assemble a notable array of scholarly treatments ranging across a great many aspects of ancient sport, and they are valuable for what they reveal about the past. But perhaps their greater value is less explicit: despite the disparities, the very continuation of sport and competition through the long centuries demonstrates the continuities of human nature lurking beneath cultural and historical differences. The desire to strive, to compete, and to triumph has been common to all ages.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Greek Sports: Identity, Status, and the Athlete
Introduction
On the Sociology of Ancient Sport
Professionalism in Archaic and Classical Greek Athletics
Gymnasion
Racing for Hera
Greek Sports in the Roman Era
Introduction
Greek Sport and Roman Indentity: the certamina athletarum at Rome
Olympia and the curia athletarum in Rome
Etruscan and Roman Sports and Spectacle
Introduction
Etruscan Sports and Festivals
The Roman Arena in Late-Republican Italy: a New Interpretation
Gladiatorial Ranking and the SC de Pretiis Gladiatorium Minuendis (CIL II 6278 = ILS 5163)
Animal Spectacles in Ancient Rome: Meat and Meaning
The Organization of Roman Racing
Bibliography
Index
