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Language: English
Published by Dover Publications, 2005
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- Title
- The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Years
- Author
- Finley, M. I.; Pleket, H. W.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0486444252
- ISBN 13
- 9780486444253
- Item weight
- 0.65 pounds
A definitive survey of the Olympic Games, from 776 B.C. to A.D. 261. Readers are introduced, with absorbing detail, to the games' events and their historical, social, and religious context. The authors also delineate the similarities and differences between ancient and modern games. 40 unnumbered plates of illustrations, 2 maps, 16 figures.
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