Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature by Robert Seesengood
Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature

Robert Seesengood

Competing Identities: The Athlete and the Gladiator in Early Christian Literature

Robert Seesengood

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Since earliest Christian martyrologies, there have been abundant uses of the metaphor of analysis of ancient athletics and their socio-religious importance in the era of the early Roman Empire. This book explores these metaphors-agonistic and comp...

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