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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens
  name:
    name part: Pritchard, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Cambridge
    publisher: Cambridge University Press
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    form: remote
    extent: xii, 251 p. : ill.
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 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.
  note: by David M. Pritchard.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Athletics
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Sports
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Athletics
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: Greece
    geographic: Athens
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Athens (Greece)
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: GV573 .P75 2013eb
  classification: 796.0938
  identifier: 9781107007338
  identifier: 9781139782395 (e-book)
  identifier: 2012018816
  identifier: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc
  record info:
    record content source: CaPaEBR
    record creation date: 120511
    record identifier: ebr10621739