A brief history of the Olympic games [electronic resource] / David C. Young.

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Wiley)
Main Author:	Young, David C.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Series:	Brief histories of the ancient world.
Subjects:	Olympic games (Ancient) > History. Olympic games (Ancient) History.