The Victor's Crown - A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium

Informationen zum Autor David Potter is Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Ancient Rome: A New History and Emperors of Rome as well as two forthcoming OUP titles, Constantine the Emperor and Theodora. Klappentext In this volume, David Potter provides a history of ancient sport from Archaic-period Greece to the early Byzantine Empire, and further explores the role sport has played throughout history.

Product details

• Authors: David Potter, David Potter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.10.2011, delayed
• EAN: 9780199842759
• ISBN: 978-0-19-984275-9
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, history of sport, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, European history: the Romans