TY - BOOK ID - 3443688 TI - Sport, democracy and war in classical Athens PY - 2013 SN - 9781107007338 110700733X 9781139030519 1316610306 1139888269 1139793772 1139776363 1139030515 1139782398 1139779400 1139783394 1283746336 1139777882 9781139776363 9781283746335 9781139779401 9781139782395 9781139782395 9781139888264 9781139793773 9781139783392 9781139777889 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sports KW - Athletics KW - Democracy KW - History KW - Sport. KW - Demokratie. KW - Krieg. KW - History. KW - Social aspects KW - Ancient KW - General. KW - Athens (Greece) KW - Griechenland. KW - Athen. KW - Politics and government. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Self-government KW - Political science KW - Equality KW - Representative government and representation KW - Republics KW - Physical education and training KW - Field sports KW - Pastimes KW - Recreations KW - Recreation KW - Games KW - Outdoor life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3443688 AB - 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. ER -