Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I: Competition in comparative perspective
1. Rivalry in history: an introduction - Hans van Wees
2. Fame and prizes: competition and war in the Neo-Assyrian empire
- Karen Radner
3. Levels and strategies of competition in the Aztec Empire - Frances
F. Berdan
Part II: Competition in Greece
4. Ancient Greek competition - a modern construct? - Christoph Ulf
5. Conflict and community in the Iliad - William Allan and Douglas
Cairns
6. Peer-polity interaction and cultural competition in sixth-century
Greece - Sara Forsdyke
7. Competitive delights: the social effects of the expanded programme
of contests in post-Kleisthenic Athens - Nick Fisher
Part III: Competition in Rome
8. Lotteries and elections: containing elite competition in Venice
and Rome - Henrik Mouritsen
9. Keeping up with the Joneses: competitive display within the
Roman villa landscape - Hannah Platts
10. Competitiveness and anti-competitiveness in Philostratus’ Lives
of the Sophists - Jason Konig
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