Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020) was a Canadian academic. At the time of his death he was

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in the Department of Classics at the

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. Golden received his BA, MA, and PhD all from

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. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Research Excellence. He wrote several books on the history of childhood, sexuality and sport in the ancient world.

Selected publications

* ''Children and Childhood in Classical Athens'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. (2nd 2015) * ''Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World'',

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, London, 1997. (edited with Peter Toohey) * ''Sport and Society in Ancient Greece'',

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, Cambridge, 1998. (Key Themes in Ancient History) * ''Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome'', Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003. (edited with Peter Toohey) ( Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World) * ''Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z'', Routledge, London, 2004. * ''Greek Sport and Social Status'',

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, 2009. (Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture Series) * ''A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World'', Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2011. (edited with Peter Toohey) (The Cultural Histories Series)

References

2020 deaths University of Toronto alumni University of Winnipeg faculty Scholars of ancient Greek history Historians of ancient Rome 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians 1948 births {{Canada-historian-stub