Donald G. Kyle 
Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World [PDF ebook] 

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

عن المؤلف

Donald G. Kyle is Professor, former Chair of History, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of Athletics in Ancient Athens (1987), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell 2007); and co-editor (with Paul Christesen) of A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell 2014).