3200:230 Prof. J. C. Fant

TuTh 10:45 - 12:00 cfant@uakron.edu

Spring 1999 www.uakron.edu/classics/

video: Greece A Moment of Excellence" narrated by Sam Waterston. Time Life Video 1995, 48 min.

David Romano video

general videos on particular events in AV Services

General

The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 2nd ed., Oxford 1986.

J. K. Anderson, Hunting in the Ancient World.

R. Bloch, "Sports in the Ancient World," Diogenes 94 (1976) 53-77.

J. Boardman, J. Griffin and O. Murray, The Oxford History of the Classical World. Oxford 1986.

D. Matz, Greek and Roman Sport. A Dictionary of Athletes and Events from the Eighth Century BC to the Third Century AD. Jefferson NC 1991.

T. B. L. Webster, Everyday Life in Classical Athens. New York 1969.

Greece

L. Drees, Olympia: Gods, Artists and Athletes. New York 1968.

C. Forbes, "Crime and Punishment in Greek Athletics," Classical Journal 47 (1952) 169-74.

L. Kurke, The Traffic in Praise. Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy. Ithaca 1991.

D. Kyle, "The Panathenaic Games: Sacred and Civic Athletes," in J. Neils ed., Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens. Princeton 1992.

Id., Athletics in Ancient Athens. Leiden 1987.

H. W. Pleket, "Games, Prizes and Ideology. Some Aspects of the History of Sport in the Greco-Roman World," Stadion 1 (1975) 49-89.

M. Lämer, "Women and sport in Ancient Greece," in J. Borms, Women and Sport. Basle 1981: 17-24.

H. Lee, "Did Women Compete against Men in Greek Athletics?" Nikephoros 1 (1988) 103-17.

Carol Mattusch, The Victorious Youth. 1997. (Bretschneider catalog).

M. McDonnell, "The Introduction of Athletic Nudity: Plato,Thucydides and the Vases," Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991) 182-93.

S. G. Miller, Nemea. A Guide to the Site and Museum. Los Angeles 1990.

S. G. Miller, "Turns and Lanes in the Ancient Stadium," AJA 84 (1980) 159-66.

H. W. Pleket, "Olympic Benefactors," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 20 (1976) 11-20.

id., "The Participants in the Olympic Games: Social Background and Mentality," in W. Coulson & H. Kyrieleis eds., Proceedings of an International Symposium on the Olympic Games. Athens 1992.

H. W. Pleket and M. I. Finley, The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years. New York 1976.

M. Poliakoff, Combat Sports in the Ancient World. New Haven 1987.

W. Raschke ed., The Archaeology of the Olympics. Madison 1988.

D. Romano, Athlethics & Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion. Philadelphia 1993.

David G. Romano, The Stadia of the Peloponnesos. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1981. (OhioLink, in U. of Cincinnati library only).

David G. Romano, "The Panathenaia," in The Pnyx in the History of Athens (Finnish Institute at Athens, Monograph 2, 1996) 71-85.

id., "The Ancient Stadium: Athletics and Arete," AncWorld 7 (1983) 9-16.

D. Sansone, Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport. Los Angeles 1988.

T. Scanlon, "The Iconograpy of the Ancient Female Runner," AJA 97 (1993) 403-22.

T. Scanlon, Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography. Chicago Ares 1984. 0-89005-522-X.

W. E. Sweet, Sport and Recreation in the Ancient Greece. A Sourcebook with Translations. Oxford 1987.

N. Yalouris ed., The Eternal Olympics. New York 1979.

David C. Young, The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics. Chicago 1984.

David Young, The Modern Olympics. A Struggle for Revival. Johns Hopkins UP 1996.

David C. Young, "Athletics," in M. Grant and R. Kitzinger eds., Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece and Rome. New York 1988. pp. 1131-42.

Rome

J. K. Auguet, Cruelty and Civilization: The Roman Games. London 1972 (Paris 1970).

J. P. V. D. Balsdon, Life and Leisure in Ancient Rome. New York 1960.

Shelby Brown, "Death as Decoration: Scenes from the Arena on Roman Domestic Mosaics," in Amy Richlin ed., Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome. Oxford UP 1992.

C. A. Barton, The Sorrows of the Ancient Romans. Princeton 1992.

H. Benario, "Sport at Rome," Ancient World 7 (1983) 39-43.

A. D. Booth, "Roman Attitudes to Physical Education," Classical News & Views 19 (1975) 27-34.

W. Briggs, "Augustan Athletics and the Games of Aeneid V," Stadion 1.2 (1975) 267-83.

D. Buchanan, Roman Sport and Entertainment. 1975.

A. Cameron, Circus Factions. Oxford 1976.

L. Friedlaender, Roman Life and Manners. 7th ed., New York 1905.

M. Grant, Gladiators. London 1967.

K. Hopkins, the chapter "Murderous Games," in his book Conquerors and Slaves. Cambridge 1982.

J. H. Humphrey, Roman Circuses. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1986.

P. Quennell, The Colosseum. 1971.

E. Rawson, "Discrimina Ordinum: the Lex Julia Theatralis," Papers of the British School at Rome 55 (1987) 83-14.

K. Welch, "The Roman Arena in late-Republican Italy: a new interpretation," Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) 59-79.

K. Welch, "The Stadium at Aphrodisias," AJA 102 (1998) 547 -569.

K. Welch, "Negotiating Roman Spectacle Architecture in the Greek World: Athens and Corinth," B. Bergmann and C. Kondoleon eds., The Art of Ancient Spectacle (Studies in the History of Art, Washington DC, 1998 or 1999).

Thomas Wiedemann, Emperors and Gladiators. Routledge: New York and London 1992.

Magnus Wistrand, Entertainment and Violence in Ancient Rome. Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia LVI 1992.

Additions

Rachel Robinson, Sources for the History of Greek Athletics. Ares 0-89005--297-2

Decker, Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt. Yale UP

Sue Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece. Harvard UP 199?

Wm Guegold, 1oo years of Olympic Music. UA Music School prof.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Story of the Making of Ben-Hur. NY, Random House, 1959.