Sport as symbol: images of the athlete in art, literature and song

1. Sport as symbol. Heroic dramas and athletic actors

2. The adversary in nature. The hunt: power of life and death

The hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight

3. The human adversary. Combat sports: the socialization of conflict

War games

4. The adversary within. Transcending time and space

Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth

5. Symbolic actors and social dramas. High priests and super stars.