Donald G. Kyle (BA 1973), one of our York graduates, has published (2014) A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (edited with Paul Christesen), Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Literature and Culture. Professor Kyle has a BA in History and Humanities from York University (1973) and a PhD from McMaster University (1981). He is the author of many articles on ancient sport and spectacle as well as several books: Athletics in Ancient Athens (1993), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), History, Sport. The Only Woman in All Greece: Kyniska, Agesilaus, Alcibiades and Olympia (2003), and Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Winner of the 2008 Book Award of the North American Society for Sport History), 2007. He teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington in the Department of History (Ancient Greece and Rome).
