The ancient Olympics / Nigel Spivey.

The word "athletics" is derived from the Greek verb "to struggle or to suffer for a prize." As Nigel Spivey reveals in this engaging account of the Olympics in ancient Greece, "suffer" is putting it mildly. Indeed, the Olympics were not so much a graceful display of Gre...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author:	Spivey, Nigel Jonathan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:	Olympic games (Ancient) > History.