Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy

by Peter J. Miller

Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type of athletic performance and the ideology of sport and its apparent origins are mostly derived from the model of one pre-modern civilization: Graeco-Roman...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135014021X
• ISBN13: 9781350140219
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"