| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The basics -- Finding your way around -- Myths -- History -- Management -- The athletes -- The programme. |
| Summary |
What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture and discover what the Greeks did and didn't do during five thrilling days in August 2,400 years ago. In the Olympic Stadium there were no stands, no shade-and no women allowed. Visitors sat on a grassy bank in the searing heat of midsummer to watch naked athletes compete in footraces, the pentathlon, horse and chariot races, and three combat sports-wrestling, boxing, and pankration, everyone's favorite competition, with virtually no rules and considerable blood and pain. This volume offers a complete tour of the Olympic site exactly as athletes and spectators found it. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Olympia (Greece : Ancient sanctuary)
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Olympia (Greece : Ancient sanctuary) (OCoLC)fst00631299
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Olympic games (Ancient)
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Greece -- Social life and customs -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Olympics.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Olympics.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Olympic games (Ancient) (OCoLC)fst01045576
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Olympics. (OCoLC)fst01045581
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Greece. (OCoLC)fst01208380
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| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Faulkner, Neil. Visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012 9780300159073 (DLC) 2011035476 (OCoLC)747713183 |
| ISBN |
9780300160291 (electronic book) |
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0300160291 (electronic book) |
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