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xv, 264 p. : 23 cm. + Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-252 and index Introduction: The Myth of Amateurism -- The Warrior and the Funeral Games in the Iliad -- The Arete of the Warrior -- The Hoplite Race -- The Funeral Games for Patroclus -- Alkinoos' Contests for Odysseus -- Early Olympia -- Geographical Setting -- Religious Setting -- Setting Worth Fighting For -- Mythic Setting -- Setting for Lacedaemonians -- Setting for Growth -- The Panhellenic Cycle of Athletic Festivals and Their Poet -- Olympic Games: The First Events -- Pythian Games: Horse Racing -- Isthmian Games -- Nemean Games -- Pindar's Epinician Odes -- The Heavy Events -- Wrestling -- Boxing -- Pankration -- Athletics in Athens -- Panathenaic Games -- The Gymnasion and its Culture -- The Critics -- Olympic Festival -- The Sanctuary during the Classical Period -- The Games: Making Ready -- The Five Days of Competition -- Pentathlon -- Discus -- Jump -- Javelin -- The Sequence of Events in Pentathon -- Determining the Winner of Pentathlon -- Glorious Day, Day of Glory

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Author

William Blake Tyrrell

Publisher

Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865165533

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Social_sciences