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Article: Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2009
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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World. By Donald G. Kyle. (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. viii, 403. $32.95.)
Gone are the days when scholars looked down on books about sports as frivolous or of marginal importance. Donald G. Kyle has now presented a book that not only examines the significance of sport in its own right but also most fruitfully explains its importance in the much larger affairs of ancient life. It is a pleasure to note that the author brings to bear his own valuable research on the topic. Thus he ably uses both the ancient sources and the broad secondary literature to excellent advantage. He also carefully defines and explains ...
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