Donald G Kyle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald G Kyle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald G |
| FAMILY NAME | Kyle |
| SIGNATURE | KYLE D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animal Events
Animal events, shows and hunts of beasts (venationes), were prominent, popular, and enduring Roman entertainments. Modern debates concerning ecology and animals have increased interest, and more works are focusing on the significance of beast shows for Roman culture and society. Historically, Rome’s beast events combined native and foreign traditions as Roman power spread abroad. Displays of exotic beasts, often in triumphs, were expanded into co…
The Ancient Olympic Games
Book Review| April 01 2016 The Ancient Olympic Games Swaddling, Judith. The Ancient Olympic Games. 3rd ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 120. Illustrated, further reading, index. $19.95, pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.43.1.143 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World
Book Review| April 01 2015 Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World Mattern, Susan P. Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+334. Footnotes, maps, chronological chart, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (1): 137–138. https://doi.org/1…
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
"A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire. Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties. Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout…
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient SourcesThe Ancient Olympics
Book Review| July 01 2013 Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient SourcesThe Ancient Olympics Miller, Stephen G. Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. 3rd and expanded ed., with a new foreword by Paul Christesen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xix+235. Bibliography, index, and glossary. $27.95 pb.Spivey, Nigel. The Ancient Olympics. 2nd ed., with a new preface. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxvii+279. Sources and fur…
Funus publicum
Most Roman funerals were conducted by the family of the deceased ( funera privata ), but among various funerary rites (Toynbee 1971: 43–61; Hopkins 1983: 201–26), a funus publicum (Toynbee 1971: 55–6) was an especially honorific funeral approved by the Senate (see Cic. Phil . 9.16–17; Wesch‐Klein 1993: 83–4), paid for by the quaestors from the state treasury, and conducted by the consuls, as a mark of honor or respect for distinguished service to…
Suicide
Modern societies stigmatize suicide as a sign of psychiatric problems (e.g., severe depression), and Christian and Muslim traditions forbid it; but suicides by the elderly and infirm are probably as old as mankind, and ancient attitudes to suicide were diverse and ambiguous.
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores* the origins and historical development of the games* who the victims were and why they were chosen* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses* the compl…
The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Book Review| October 01 2012 The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium Potter, David. The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxx+416. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $24.95 pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012)…
Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety and War
This essay discusses the intersections of sport (athletes, agonistic festivals) and Greek ethnicity, religion, politics and warfare in Herodotus' Histories. Herodotus makes occasional but significant use of sport to characterize peoples and individuals. Passages concerning Egypt (the Elean embassy), Lydia (Croesus) and Persia (Xerxes being told that Greeks compete at Olympia 'for arete, not material gain'), help define 'Greekness' or Hellenic cul…
The Greek City States: A Source Book
Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Gr…
The Art of Ancient Spectacle
Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts. The contributors to the volume consider how participation and spectatorship in diverse public activities influenced perceptions of what it meant to be Greek or Roman. And they examine the essential roles of …
Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power
Books reviews
J. Neils (ed.), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Pp. 227, 24 colour plates, 170 b&w illus. $49.50 (£37.50) cloth; $19.95 (£13.95) paper. ISBN 0–691–03612–8 (cloth); 0–691–00223–1 (paper). Steven H. Lonsdale, Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Pp. xxi + 352. Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. $39.95. ISB…
Decker on Sport in Pharaonic Egypt: Recreations and Rituals, Combats and Ceremonies, Agonism—and Athletics? Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt
E. Norman Gardiner: Historian of ancient sport
Athletes and archaeologists: Some recent works on the sites and significance of ancient Greek sport
(1991). Athletes and archaeologists: some recent works on the sites and significance of ancient Greek sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 270-283
Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology
Journal Article Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology. Ed. by Donald G. Kyle and Gary D. Stark. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. x + 154 pp. $24.50.) Get access Mark Dyreson Mark Dyreson Weber State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1043, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078818 Published: 01 December 1991
Claudius
Phocion the Good
Democracy and Participation in Athens
Athletics in Ancient Athens
Athens - The Athletic
Aristophanes and Athenian Society of the Early Fourth Century B.C
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores* the origins and historical development of the games* who the victims were and why they were chosen* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses* the compl…
Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology
Journal Article Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology. Ed. by Donald G. Kyle and Gary D. Stark. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. x + 154 pp. $24.50.) Get access Mark Dyreson Mark Dyreson Weber State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1043, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078818 Published: 01 December 1991
The Greek City States: A Source Book
Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Gr…
E. Norman Gardiner: Historian of ancient sport
Athletics in Ancient Athens
Aristophanes and Athenian Society of the Early Fourth Century B.C
Aristophanes and Athenian Society of the Early Fourth Century B.C
Athens - The Athletic
Athletics in Ancient Athens
Democracy and Participation in Athens
E. Norman Gardiner: Historian of ancient sport
Athletes and archaeologists: Some recent works on the sites and significance of ancient Greek sport
(1991). Athletes and archaeologists: some recent works on the sites and significance of ancient Greek sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport: Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 270-283
Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology
Journal Article Essays on Sport History and Sport Mythology. Ed. by Donald G. Kyle and Gary D. Stark. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1990. x + 154 pp. $24.50.) Get access Mark Dyreson Mark Dyreson Weber State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 3, December 1991, Page 1043, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078818 Published: 01 December 1991
Claudius
Phocion the Good
Decker on Sport in Pharaonic Egypt: Recreations and Rituals, Combats and Ceremonies, Agonism—and Athletics? Sports and Games of Ancient Egypt
Books reviews
J. Neils (ed.), Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993). Pp. 227, 24 colour plates, 170 b&w illus. $49.50 (£37.50) cloth; $19.95 (£13.95) paper. ISBN 0–691–03612–8 (cloth); 0–691–00223–1 (paper). Steven H. Lonsdale, Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Pp. xxi + 352. Illustrations, bibliography, indexes. $39.95. ISB…
Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power
The Art of Ancient Spectacle
Festivals, ceremonies, rituals, and other displays provide powerful ways to create and express a collective identity. This engaging book is the first to explore the intersection between ancient Greek and Roman spectacles and visual artefacts. The contributors to the volume consider how participation and spectatorship in diverse public activities influenced perceptions of what it meant to be Greek or Roman. And they examine the essential roles of …
The Greek City States: A Source Book
Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Gr…
Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety and War
This essay discusses the intersections of sport (athletes, agonistic festivals) and Greek ethnicity, religion, politics and warfare in Herodotus' Histories. Herodotus makes occasional but significant use of sport to characterize peoples and individuals. Passages concerning Egypt (the Elean embassy), Lydia (Croesus) and Persia (Xerxes being told that Greeks compete at Olympia 'for arete, not material gain'), help define 'Greekness' or Hellenic cul…
Funus publicum
Most Roman funerals were conducted by the family of the deceased ( funera privata ), but among various funerary rites (Toynbee 1971: 43–61; Hopkins 1983: 201–26), a funus publicum (Toynbee 1971: 55–6) was an especially honorific funeral approved by the Senate (see Cic. Phil . 9.16–17; Wesch‐Klein 1993: 83–4), paid for by the quaestors from the state treasury, and conducted by the consuls, as a mark of honor or respect for distinguished service to…
Suicide
Modern societies stigmatize suicide as a sign of psychiatric problems (e.g., severe depression), and Christian and Muslim traditions forbid it; but suicides by the elderly and infirm are probably as old as mankind, and ancient attitudes to suicide were diverse and ambiguous.
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores* the origins and historical development of the games* who the victims were and why they were chosen* how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses* the compl…
The Victor’s Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium
Book Review| October 01 2012 The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium Potter, David. The Victor's Crown: A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to Byzantium. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxx+416. Notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations. $24.95 pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2012)…
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
"A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire. Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties. Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout…
Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient SourcesThe Ancient Olympics
Book Review| July 01 2013 Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient SourcesThe Ancient Olympics Miller, Stephen G. Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. 3rd and expanded ed., with a new foreword by Paul Christesen. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. xix+235. Bibliography, index, and glossary. $27.95 pb.Spivey, Nigel. The Ancient Olympics. 2nd ed., with a new preface. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxvii+279. Sources and fur…
Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World
Book Review| April 01 2015 Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World Mattern, Susan P. Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xii+334. Footnotes, maps, chronological chart, bibliography, and index. $29.95 pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2015) 42 (1): 137–138. https://doi.org/1…
The Ancient Olympic Games
Book Review| April 01 2016 The Ancient Olympic Games Swaddling, Judith. The Ancient Olympic Games. 3rd ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 120. Illustrated, further reading, index. $19.95, pb. Donald G. Kyle Donald G. Kyle University of Texas at Arlington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (1): 143–144. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.43.1.143 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon …
Animal Events
Animal events, shows and hunts of beasts (venationes), were prominent, popular, and enduring Roman entertainments. Modern debates concerning ecology and animals have increased interest, and more works are focusing on the significance of beast shows for Roman culture and society. Historically, Rome’s beast events combined native and foreign traditions as Roman power spread abroad. Displays of exotic beasts, often in triumphs, were expanded into co…
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