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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by icebraining on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:34PM (#17537475)
The gladiators might not, but the chariot racers in the Hippodrome did have teams/factions, with fans loyal to each: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot_racing

That said, you're right that it wasn't "international", but then again "nations" themselves aren't that old.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by dragonwriter on Sunday July 15, 2018 @07:14PM (#17537631)
> but then again "nations" themselves aren't that old.

Nations are, nationalism and nation-states (which are different but related phenomena) aren't.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by ekianjo on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:10PM (#17538058)
No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent, starting from early 1800s for some parts of Europe. Longer than that you had tribal factions or regional identities and that is it.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by dragonwriter on Sunday July 15, 2018 @10:27PM (#17538346)
> No, the whole concept of national identity is very recent

No, it's not, though some current national identities are. The idea of Israel as a nation (distinct from either a state or regional identity), for instance, is at least as old as the Old Testament.

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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by awinder on Sunday July 15, 2018 @09:40PM (#17538174)
How was the unified Greek state different if you don’t mind me asking?
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by ekianjo on Monday July 16, 2018 @07:58PM (#17546199)
which era are you refering to? ancient greece was not a unified state. the common denominator what the city. Athenians were clearly not considering themselves like belonging to the same group as Spartans.
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Re:When You Watch Sports, Your Brain Thinks You’re Playing by sonnyblarney on Sunday July 15, 2018 @06:37PM (#17537492)
If the Romans were smart, they would have had Gladiators and Racers actually representative of provinces.

Or better yet, invent football and do the same.

Nationalism didn't exist at the time, but ethnocentrism certainly did :)

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