Zinon Papakonstantinou is Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of Washington. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece, Duckworth: London 2008 and articles on Greek law, sport and commensality.

"The present collection of essays appeared as a separate issue of the International Journal of Sport History in 2009 and is now published within the series Sport in the Global Society. ...the quality is outstanding. All of them are very informative; each one is complemented by an extensive bibliography on the topic discussed. The essays are written by some of the most important and active scholars in the field. The collection will be of great interest to students and to classical scholars who do not work on sport as their main area, as well as to the non-classicist, sport specialist." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2010

• 1. Prologue: Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World Zinon Papakonstantinou 2. Contesting Ancient Mediterranean Sport Thomas Scanlon 3. Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad Paul Christesen 4. Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety, and War Donald Kyle 5. Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens David Pritchard 6. Challenged by Egyptians: Greek Sports in the Third century BC Sofie Remijsen 7. Gladiators in the Greek east: a Case Study in Romanization Christian Mann 8. Gladiators and Monomachoi: Greek Attitudes to a Roman 'Cultural Performance' Michael Carter 9. The Greek Ephebate in the Roman Period Nigel Kennell 10. Observations on Boys, Girls, Youths and Age Categories in Roman Sports and Spectacles Nigel Crowther 11. Epilogue: Some Perspectives on Ancient Sport Zinon Papakonstantinou

Zinon Papakonstantinou is Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of Washington. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece, Duckworth: London 2008 and articles on Greek law, sport and commensality.

"The present collection of essays appeared as a separate issue of the International Journal of Sport History in 2009 and is now published within the series Sport in the Global Society. ...the quality is outstanding. All of them are very informative; each one is complemented by an extensive bibliography on the topic discussed. The essays are written by some of the most important and active scholars in the field. The collection will be of great interest to students and to classical scholars who do not work on sport as their main area, as well as to the non-classicist, sport specialist." -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2010

• 1. Prologue: Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World Zinon Papakonstantinou 2. Contesting Ancient Mediterranean Sport Thomas Scanlon 3. Whence 776? The Origin of the Date for the First Olympiad Paul Christesen 4. Pan-Hellenism and Particularism: Herodotus on Sport, Greekness, Piety, and War Donald Kyle 5. Sport, War and Democracy in Classical Athens David Pritchard 6. Challenged by Egyptians: Greek Sports in the Third century BC Sofie Remijsen 7. Gladiators in the Greek east: a Case Study in Romanization Christian Mann 8. Gladiators and Monomachoi: Greek Attitudes to a Roman 'Cultural Performance' Michael Carter 9. The Greek Ephebate in the Roman Period Nigel Kennell 10. Observations on Boys, Girls, Youths and Age Categories in Roman Sports and Spectacles Nigel Crowther 11. Epilogue: Some Perspectives on Ancient Sport Zinon Papakonstantinou