Athletics in the Ancient World

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Courier Corporation, 2002 M11 1 - 246 páginas
This comprehensive text focuses mostly on athletics in classical Greece and Rome, emphasizing the relationship between athletics and religion, art, and education. Also discussed are such events as throwing the discus and javelin, the pentathlon, the stadium and the foot-race, jumping, wrestling, boxing, ball play, and a Greek athletic festival. According to the Times (London) Literary Supplement, the book "should command the attention not only of classical scholars but of all who are interested in athletics for their own sake; and for such readers, [the author] has spared no pains to make his work intelligible." Unabridged republication of Athletics of the Ancient World, originally published by the Oxford University Press, London, 1930. 137 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index and Glossary.
 

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INTRODUCTION THE MEANING OF ATHLETICS
1
SPORTS OF THE ANCIENT EAST
4
ATHLETICS IN HOMER
18
ATHLETICS AND RELIGION
28
ATHLETICS AND ART
53
ATHLETICS AND EDUCATION
72
PROFESSIONALISM
97
ROMAN SPORTS
115
JUMPING
142
THROWING THE DISKOS
152
THROWING THE JAVELIN
167
THE PENTATHLON
175
WRESTLING
179
BOXING
195
THE PANKRATION
210
BALL PLAY
228

THE STADIUM AND THE FOOTRACE
126

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