APA 2302 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - 21-09-2017
9 Dec 2017
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Week 3 locating sport in ancient rome. When first olympics were taking place in greece, rome was a farm community. Roman expansion: military, language, and culture dominated all of italy by 500 b. c. By the end of the first century ad, the roman empire covered the entire rim of the. The ancient olympic games took place every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 ad, the roman emperor theodosius i, a christian, abolished the games because of their pagan influence. Cultivated romans looked to the greeks for models of art and literature, philosophy, and politics. Individualistic: focused on the athlete, competitive, unappealing. Grounded in a militaristic culture that emphasized and appreciated combat, bloodshed, and victory. Characterized by: diversions for the masses, exclusion of women as athletes. For sport, roman preferred: hippodrome circuses, gladiatorial combats, mild exercise before the baths, throw ball high the air, keeping it in the air, or against the wall; juggling.
