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A brief history of the Olympic games /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004.
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| Colección: | Brief histories of the ancient world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Beginnings and evidence
- Athletic events
- Combat and equestrian events
- Zeus country
- Pindar and immortality
- Body, mind, and Greek athletics
- Questions of profit and social class
- The athletes
- Women and Greek athletics
- Between the Greek and Roman worlds
- The later centuries of Olympia
- The origin and authenticity of the modern Olympic Games
- Appendix A: Chronology and schedule of the athletic circuit
- Appendix B: Technical note on discus and long jump
- Appendix C: Modern issues : the marathon and torch relay.