Sport and Society in Ancient Greece

By - Golden, Mark

Floor - Floor 1

Published - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

ISBN 10 - 0521497906

ISBN 13 - 9780521497909

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Sports--Social aspects--Greece--History. , Olympic games (Ancient)

Shelf No - 14

Call Number - 306.4 GOL

Physical Description - xiii, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes - includes bibliographical references (p. 186-207) and index.

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Sport and Society in Ancient Greece provides a concise and readable introduction to ancient Greek sport. It covers such topics as the links between sport, religion and warfare, the origins and history of the Olympic games, and the spirit of competition among the Greeks. Its main focus, however, is on Greek sport as an arena for the creation and expression of difference among individuals and groups. Sport not only identified winners and losers. It also drew boundaries between groups (Greeks and barbarians, boys and men, males and females) and offered a field for debate on the relative worth of athletic and equestrian competition. The book includes guides to the ancient evidence and to modern scholarship on the subject.

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