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Foxing to inner covers. Scholar's name to ffep (Cedric Boulter). Minor shelfwear. ; 244 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Small tear to DJ. Tape stains to boards. ; Reprint of the 1972 ed. 288pp, ill. ; Aspects of Greek and Roman Life; 288 pages; Sporting activity in Greece and Rome, from the first Olympic Games in 776 BC to chariot racing during the Byzantine era. The book treats not only sports history, but its philosophy and psychology as well.
Very light bump to 1 corner. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Else Fine. ; 208pp, illustrated.; 208 pages
8vo, 127 pages, 101 illustrations. Translated from the Danish by Norah Holtze. Remains of a bookplate on the inside front cover. Signed by the author on the preliminary title page. eng
168 pages, illustrated, rear endpaper removed. eng
pp. (13) [Catalogue Spalding's Athletic Library], 61, (20) [Illustrated Advertisements] + portrait frontis of A. G. Spalding. Numerous full page drawings. 16mo. Original pictorial wraps. Spine and lower front cover torn with some loss. Good copy of a scarce early book on tumbling. GAMES BOX 4
Light edgewear to wraps. Creasing along spine. ; 30 pages
256 pages, illustrated, index. eng
Light shelfwear to wraps. Spine creased. ; Academisch Proefschrift; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches; 458 pages
in-8°, 158 pages, figures, schemas et tabl., broche, couverture illustree. Bon etat. [CA29-4]
123p. + Frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Original dust jacket. Hardbound. Nice copy. GAMES BOX 1
Slight sticker residue to DJ. ; From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions. ; Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture; 8.7 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 232 pages
Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Upper front corner creased. ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
Underlining in pen and notes to some pages. Scholar's initial to inner cover (Jenifer Neils). ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
DJ has creasing along top edge. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers. Former reference copy. ; 9.4 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 208 pages
in-8°, 315 pages, ill. in-t. en noir, broché. Bel exemplaire. [SO-2]
Light shelfwear. ; Reprint of the 1930 ed. , with a new preface by S. G. Miller. Xviii, 246pp, illustrated. ; 246 pages
Light pencilling. Small stain to titlepage. ; Reprint of the 1930 ed. , with a new preface by S. G. Miller. Xviii, 246pp, illustrated. ; 246 pages
Magazine in as new unread condition. 86pp. Special Souvenir Issue of Cycling Weekly to commemorate Mark Cavendish World Championship win.
Broché. 106 pages. Manque à la couverture.
Creasing to spine. Minor edgewear to wraps. ; Very heavy; 424 pages
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Unpaginated. pp. 'The best running guide ever - answers to what, where, when and why.'
Faint creasing to a few pages. Light creasing to front wrap. Scholars' bookplate to ffep (Slater & Dunbabin). ; Palingenesia LVII; 440 pages
Very light creasing along top edge to DJ. ; Part I: Competition in comparative perspective: 1. Rivalry in history: an introduction (Hans van Wees) 2. Fame and prizes: competition and war in the Neo-Assyrian empire (Karen Radner) 3. Levels and strategies of competition in the Aztec Empire (Frances F. Berdan) Part II: Competition in Greece: 4. Ancient Greek competition - a modern construct? (Christoph Ulf) 5. Conflict and community in the Iliad (William Allan and Douglas Cairns) 6. Peer-polity interaction and cultural competition in sixth-century Greece (Sara Forsdyke) 7. Competitive delights: the social effects of the expanded programme of contests in post-Kleisthenic Athens (Nick Fisher) Part III: Competition in Rome: 8. Lotteries and elections: containing elite competition in Venice and Rome (Henrik Mouritsen) 9. Keeping up with the Joneses: competitive display within the Roman villa landscape (Hannah Platts) 10. Competitiveness and anti-competitiveness in Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists (Jason Konig); 320 pages; Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homers Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors.
