Sport, Democracy and War in Classical Athens

Informationen zum Autor David M. Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland. He has held research fellowships at Macquarie University, Sydney, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Sydney. In 2013 Dr Pritchard was the Charles Gordon Mackay Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. He has edited War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2010) and co-edited Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (2003). He is currently finishing a monograph on public spending in democratic Athens. Klappentext This book explains why the democracy of classical Athens generously sponsored elite sport and idolised its sporting victors. Zusammenfassung Why did sport! an elite pastime! escape the usual criticism of such activities in democratic Athens? This is a bold and novel exploration of this question! which examines the links between three of the fundamental aspects of Athens in the classical period - democratic politics! commitment to sport and constant warfare. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Problems, models and sources; 2. Athletic participation and education; 3. The democratic support of athletics; 4. Athletics in satyric drama; 5. The common culture of athletics and war; 6. The democratisation of war; 7. Conclusion: athletic ephebes.

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• Authors: David M Pritchard, David M. Pritchard, David M. (Senior Lecturer Pritchard, PRITCHARD DAVID M, Pritchard David M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107007338
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00733-8
• No. of pages: 261
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory