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The Ancient Olympics, A History
by Nigel Spivey
- HISTORY
- 2005
- PAPER
- 304 PAGES
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Cambridge classicist Spivey offers a vivid history of Greek athletic contests, not just the Olympian but also the Pythian at Delphi, Isthmian at Corinth and Nemean at Argos. A wonderful popular writer, he focuses on the central role of athletics (and the military which was a close corollary) in classical Greek life. The book is timed, not coincidentally, with the quadrennial. With 40 black-and-white illustrations.
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