Ancient Sports & Athletics

3 credits · Undergraduate

Where does the modern ideal of sport come from? In large part from the ancient Greeks and their heirs, the Romans. From the heroic ideal of Homer to the practical problems of organizing the ancient Olympics, from the philosophy of Plato to the ideology of the Roman emperors, this class examines the practices, institutions, and ideas of sports and athletics in the these long vanished but wonderfully well documented civilizations. FORMATS: Lecture