TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pritchard,David
TI  - Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens
SN  - 9781139776363
AV  - GV573 .P75 2013eb
U1  - 796.0938 23
PY  - 2013///, ©2013
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Sports
KW  - Greece
KW  - History
KW  - Athletics
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Athens
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Sports athlétiques
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an unrivalled program of local sporting festivals on which they spent staggering sums of money. They also shielded sportsmen from the public criticism which was otherwise normally directed towards the elite and its conspicuous activities. This book is a bold and novel exploration of this apparent contradiction, which examines three of the fundamental aspects of Athens in the classical period - democratic politics, public commitment to sport and constant warfare - and is essential reading for all of those who are interested in Greek sport, Athenian democracy and its waging of war"--
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