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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Maps | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Introduction: Ancient Sport History | |
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| Why Sport History? | |
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| Word Games: Conceptualizing Sport and Spectacle | |
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| Challenges: Evidence, Chronology, and Modernism | |
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| Sports and Spectacles as Cultural Performances | |
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| Greece and Rome: Positive and Negative Classicism | |
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| Sports as Spectacle, Spectacles as Sport | |
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| Origins and Essences: Early Sport and Spectacle | |
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| Mesopotamian Combat Sports and Running | |
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| Egypt: From Hunting to Sporting Pharaohs | |
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| Royal Hunts as a Near Eastern Tradition | |
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| States and Sports, Empires and Spectacles | |
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| Late Bronze Age Minoans, Hittites, and Mycenaeans | |
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| Minoan Performances: Rites, Contests or Spectacles? | |
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| Hittite Contests? | |
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| Mycenaean Contests? | |
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| A Sporting Mediterranean World | |
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| Sport in Homer: Contests, Prizes, and Honor | |
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| Funeral Games for Patroklos: Prizes and Reconciliation | |
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| The Odyssey: Sport and Returning Home | |
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| Epic Sport as Spectacle | |
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| Archaic Greece: Athletics in an Age of Change | |
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| Factors in the Growth of Athletics | |
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| Nudity, Democracy, and Eros | |
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| Funeral Games and City-State Prizes | |
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| The Coming of Age of Greek Sport | |
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| In Search of the Ancient Olympics | |
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| The Olympics of Illusion and Allusion | |
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| Modern Myths and Invented Traditions | |
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| The Quagmire of Olympic Origins: Explanations and Excavations | |
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| Ancient Olympia and its Games | |
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| The Physical Context: Sanctuary and Facilities | |
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| The Olympic Festival: Operation and Administration | |
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| The Program of Contests | |
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| Olympia and Spectacle: Politics, Problems, and Performances | |
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| Panhellenic Sacred Crown Games | |
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| Pythian Games | |
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| Isthmian Games | |
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| Nemean Games | |
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| Panhellenic Variations and More | |
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| Athens: City of Contests and Prizes | |
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| The Panathenaic Games: Sacred and Civic Athletics | |
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| Other Athletic Festivals | |
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| Athletic Facilities | |
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| Politics, Patronage, and Sport | |
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| Athenian Athletes and Athletes at Athens | |
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| Critics and Popular Attitudes | |
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| Spartan Sport and Physical Education | |
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| Physical Education: Building the Body Politic | |
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| Spartan Athletics | |
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| Kyniska and Spartan Chariot Racing at Olympia | |
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| Not So Strange Greeks | |
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| Greek Athletes: Myths, Motives, and Mobility | |
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| Athletic Stars and Stories | |
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| Pindar on Victory and Glory | |
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| Athletes and Social History | |
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| Democratization and Athletics | |
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| Females and Greek Athletics | |
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| Girls' Races and the Heraia | |
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| Women at the Male Olympics? | |
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| Virgin Olympic Spectators? | |
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| Macedon and Hellenistic Sport and Spectacle | |
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| Philip II: Proclaiming Greekness through Games | |
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| Alexander the Great: Becoming Near Eastern through Spectacles | |
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| Hellenistic Sport and Spectacle | |
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| The Hellenistic Model | |
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| The Roman Republic: Festivals, Celebrations, and Games | |
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| Etruscan Sport and Spectacle: Greek Gifts and Roman Roots? | |
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| Roman Festivals and Entertainments | |
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| Chariot Racing at Rome | |
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| Triumphs: Spectacles of Military Victory | |
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| Hunts and Beasts: Conquests and Games | |
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| Gladiators: Roman Rites and Combats | |
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| Romans and Greek Sport | |
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| Roman-Hellenistic Spectacular Discourse | |
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| Late Republic and Augustus: Spectacles, Popular Politics, and Empire | |
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| The Meaning of Gladiatorial Combat: Infamy and Virtue | |
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| Sulla, Pompey, and Caesar: Magnificence and Munificence | |
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| Augustus: Unification and Imperial Rule through Shows | |
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| Spectacle, Sport, and the Roman Empire | |
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| Emperors, Spectacles, and Scandals | |
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| Days at the Track: Chariot Racing | |
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| Imperial Triumphs | |
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| Gladiators, Arenas, and Empire | |
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| Beast Hunts: Nature and Empire | |
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| Spectacular Executions: Beasts, Criminals, and Social Order | |
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| Greek Games in the Roman Empire | |
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| Assimilation and Accommodation | |
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| Conclusion: Ancient Sport and Spectacle | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |