Note: Previously issued in print: 2017 , Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Literaturangaben , General Introduction , Part One. The Background ; Greek Athletic Competitions : The Ancient Olympics and More , Sport in the Aegean Bronze Age , Sport in the Early Iron Age and Homeric Epic , Representations of Sport in Greek Literature , Picturing Victory : Representations of Sport in Greek Art , Inscriptions as Evidence for Greek Sport , Recent Trends in the Study of Greek Sport , Part Two. Places ; Panhellenic Athletics at Olympia , Sport and Society in Sparta , Sport, Society, and Politics in Athens , Athletic Festivals in the Northern Peloponnese and Central Greece , Sport and Society in the Greek West , Part Three. People, Settings, Ideas ; Sport and Democratization in Ancient Greece (with an Excursus on Athletic Nudity) , Growing Up with Greek Sport : Education and Athletics , Eros and Greek Sport , Greek Female Sport : Rites, Running, and Racing , People on the Fringes of Greek Sport , The Greek Stadium as a Reflection of a Changing Society , The Social Life of Greek Athletic Facilities (other than Stadia) , The Role of Religion in Greek Sport , Ancient Critics of Greek Sport , Sport, Spectacle, and Society in Ancient Macedonia , Part Four. Later Greek Sport and Spectacle ; Greek Sport in Egypt : Status Symbol and Lifestyle , Sport in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor , Section Two. Rome ; Part One. The Background ; Overview of Roman Spectacle , Etruscan Sport , Writing Arenas : Roman Authors and Their Games , Representations of Spectacle and Sport in Roman Art , Material Evidence for Roman Spectacle and Sport , Trends in the Study of Roman Spectacle and Sport , Part Two. Spectacles and Sport in Rome ; Gladiatorial Combat as Alluring Spectacle , Women with Swords : Female Gladiators in the Roman World , Roman Chariot Racing : Charioteers, Factions, Spectators , Roman Beast-Hunts , Spectacular Executions in the Roman World , Greek Sports in Rome , Part Three. People, Settings, Ideas ; Amphitheaters in the Roman World , Venues for Spectacle and Sport (other than Amphitheaters) in the Roman World , People on the Margins of Roman Spectacle , Religion and Roman Spectacle , Ancient Critics of Roman Spectacle and Sport , Part Four. Later Roman Spectacle and Sport ; Romanization through Spectacle in the Greek East , Spectacle and Sport in Constantinople in the Sixth Century CE