Sport in Ancient Egypt
Author | : A. D. Touny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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Author | : A. D. Touny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wolfgang Decker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Egypt |
ISBN | : 9780300044638 |
Author | : Don Nardo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Arts, Egyptian |
ISBN | : 9781590187067 |
The many arts and crafts at which the Egyptians excelled and the numerous leisure pastimes they pursued are examined in detail in this enlightening book. Among the crafts covered are pottery- and glass-making, spinning and weaving, painting, sculpture and jewelry-making. Other chapters are devoted to Egyptian writing systems and literature, as well as activities such as music, dancing, wrestling, archery and hunting.
Author | : Joyce A. Tyldesley |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780747806615 |
The Ancient Egyptian enjoyed a wide range of sports and games young men chased lions and ostriches across the desert. Children played with balls and dolls. Even the Egyptian kings took their own sporting prowess very seriously. This work looks at the range of sports and games played in the times of the Ancient Egyptians.
Author | : Nigel B. Crowther |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : 9780806139951 |
A lively survey encompassing the Orient, the Americas, and the classical world From the Olympic Games of Greece to the gladiatorial contests of Rome, sport in the ancient world was fiercely competitive and included a wider range of physical contests than we moderns might suspect. The early Chinese played forms of polo and golf, while half a world away, Hohokam and Maya Indians enjoyed team ball games. Nigel Crowther, a leading authority on classical Greek sport, here casts his net over the entire ancient world to reveal the variety, and often the intensity, of sport in earlier times, from 3000 b.c.e. to the Middle Ages. Taking in twenty premodern societies on five continents--with particular emphasis on ancient Greece and Rome and the Byzantine Empire--he traces connections to modern sporting attitudes, practices, and institutions as he describes how athletics figured in cultural arenas that extended beyond physical prowess to ritual, social status, military associations, and politics. Crowther takes us back to the birth of sumo wrestling in Japan and describes the sports of the Sumerians and Hittites. He documents bull leaping and boxing as recorded on pottery in Crete, as well as running and archery as practiced by the pharaohs in Egypt. He shows the significance of the early Olympic Games, describes the Romans' use of gladiatorial contests for political ends, and analyzes the influence of Byzantine chariot racing on society. He also notes the changing role of women in ancient sports--from their prominence in Egyptian contests, to the mythological Atalanta, to female Roman gladiators. As informative as it is entertaining, Sport in Ancient Times opens new vistas for general readers, students, and sport historians. It offers a broad look at ancient sport and will enrich readers' appreciation of games they enjoy today.
Author | : Michael B. Poliakoff |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780300063127 |
A comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome and the Near East.
Author | : Stephen G. Miller |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2004-06-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520931039 |
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.
Author | : Ahmed D. Touny |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 199? |
Genre | : Sports |
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Author | : Kamal Saleh Abdou |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Egypt |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1931 |
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