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Competing for the gods: agonistic rituals in the ancient world (Competiendo para los dioses: los rituals agonísticos en el mundo antíguo): edited by Rocío Gordillo Hervás, Eduardo Ferrer Albelda and Álvaro Pereira Delgado, Seville, University of Seville, 2022, 14€, (hardback), ISBN 978-84-472-3023-5 While the Olympics are the most significant record of sports practice since classical antiquity, they remain one of the most significant and universal manifestations of the presence of sport in the modern world. In chapter six, Rocío Gordillo Hervás focuses on how Emperor Hadrian, interested in homogenising the religious and civil time of the entire Roman Empire, uses the Greek agonistic ritualistic competitions to create a new calendar. [Extracted from the article] |
