A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity

Nikephoros 29, 2023

After a break since it last appeared in Nikephoros 27 (2014), the Annual Bibliography of Sport in Antiquity will, starting from this issue, be continued.

Sport was practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. Ancient cultures employed sport in a variety of social contexts. Sport served as an element of ceremonial performance, as a foundation for physical education, and as the dramatic focus of popular spectacles from the local to the imperial level. In recent years, the continuous re-assessment of old and new evidence in conjunction with the development of new methodological perspectives have created the need for a fresh examination of central aspects of ancient sport in a single volume. This book fills that gap in ancient sport scholarship.

The Ancient History Bulletin, 2015

Nach einem Vierteljahrhundert Verantwortung für die Jahresbibliographie zum Sport im Altertum und kontinuierlicher Arbeit an ihr, die seit Band 2 (1989) regelmäßig Bestandteil dieser Zeitschrift war, trete ich von meinen Aufgaben zurück und lege ihr Schicksal in jüngere Hände. Dieser Wechsel gibt Anlaß, einen kurzen Rückblick auf Entstehung und Entwicklung des Projektes zu werfen.