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The Victor´s Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
David Potter
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Description for The Victor´s Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Paperback.
Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discover what it was that made them so great. It shows how the rise of the Roman Empire transformed the sporting world by popularizing new forms of entertainment (chiefly chariot racing, gladiatorial combat and beast hunts). David Potter vividly ... Read more
Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC. Special attention is paid to violent sports of boxing, wrestling and pancration. We meet the great athletes of the past and discover what it was that made them so great. It shows how the rise of the Roman Empire transformed the sporting world by popularizing new forms of entertainment (chiefly chariot racing, gladiatorial combat and beast hunts). David Potter vividly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857382009
SKU
V9780857382009
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-10
About David Potter
David Potter is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. He is also the author of Emperors of Rome.
Reviews for The Victor´s Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium
'A rich, absorbing account' Independent on Sunday.
Independent on Sunday
'Vivid and authoritative ... scholarly and entertaining ... fascinating and impressive' Sunday Times.
Sunday Times
Independent on Sunday
'Vivid and authoritative ... scholarly and entertaining ... fascinating and impressive' Sunday Times.
Sunday Times