Mark Golden

{{Short description|Canadian academic (1948–2020)}}

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Mark Golden (August 6, 1948 – April 9, 2020){{Cite web|title=Obituary of Mark Golden {{!}} Alterna Cremation|url=https://alternacremation.ca/tribute/details/158/Mark-Golden/obituary.html|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Alterna Cremation|language=en-US}} was a Canadian academic. At the time of his death he was professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Winnipeg. Golden received his BA, MA, and PhD all from University of Toronto. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Research Excellence.{{Cite web|title=Mark Golden |url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/classics/faculty/mark-golden.html |access-date=10 October 2015|website=Classics {{!}} The University of Winnipeg}}{{Cite web|title=Mark Golden {{!}} Emeritus/Emerita {{!}} The University of Winnipeg|url=https://www.uwinnipeg.ca/awards-distinctions/emeritus-emerita/golden.html|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.uwinnipeg.ca}} He wrote several books on the history of childhood, sexuality and sport in the ancient world.{{Cite web|title=Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg • Expertise Finder Network|url=https://network.expertisefinder.com/experts/mark-golden|access-date=3 April 2019|website=Expertise Finder Network|location=Toronto }}{{Cite magazine|date=April 16, 2020 |first1=Harold |last1=Shuster |title=In memoriam: Mark Golden|url=https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/in-memoriam-mark-golden|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Canadian Dimension |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=In Memoriam: Mark Golden (1948-2020) {{!}} Department of Classics|url=https://classics.utoronto.ca/in-memoriam-mark-golden/|publisher=University of Toronto, Department of Classics|access-date=2021-09-01|language=en-CA}}{{Cite web|title=GOLDEN MARK - Obituaries - Winnipeg Free Press Passages|url=https://passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-details/id-272117/MARK-GOLDEN|access-date=2021-09-01|website=passages.winnipegfreepress.com}}{{Cite web|title=Mark GOLDEN Obituary (1948 - 2020) - Toronto, ON - The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/theglobeandmail/195999866|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.legacy.com|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=2020-04-10|title=Mark Golden|url=https://camws.org/markgolden|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Classical Association of the Middle West and South |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Mark Golden|url=https://department.monm.edu/classics/Department/FoxLecture/golden.htm|access-date=2021-09-01|website=department.monm.edu}}

Selected publications

  • Children and Childhood in Classical Athens, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. (2nd 2015)
  • Inventing Ancient Culture: Historicism, Periodization and the Ancient World, Routledge, London, 1997. (edited with Peter Toohey) {{ISBN|0415099609}}
  • Sport and Society in Ancient Greece, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. (Key Themes in Ancient History)
  • Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2003. (edited with Peter Toohey) {{ISBN|0748613196}} (Edinburgh Readings on the Ancient World)
  • Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z, Routledge, London, 2004.
  • Greek Sport and Social Status, University of Texas Press, 2009. {{ISBN|0292718691}} (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)

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