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The Olympic Games : ancient and modern / compiled by W. Lindsay Adams and Larry R. Gerlach.

Title
The Olympic Games : ancient and modern / compiled by W. Lindsay Adams and Larry R. Gerlach.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Pearson Custom Pub., c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Adams, W. Lindsay.
  • Gerlach, Larry R.
Description
iv, 301 p.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Jeux olympiques ((Grèce antique))
  • Jeux olympiques > évolution
  • Olympics > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
I. Ancient Olympic games -- Sport at Rome -- The Olympic training period -- ...The impartiality of the Olympic judges and the case of Leon of Ambracia -- The first hundred Olympiads: a process of decline or democratization -- The nature and function of the Olympic truce in ancient Greece -- The "first" Olympic Games of 776 B.C. -- Athletic arete in Pindar -- Excavations at the Panhellenic site of Nemea
ISBN
0536670455
OCLC
  • 49013688
  • SCSB-12533188
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library