A Brief History of the Olympic Games (Wiley Brief Histories of the Ancient World)

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For more than a millennium, the traditional Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, till a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions within the fourth century AD. However the Olympic ideal didn’t die and this book is a succinct history of the traditional Olympics and their up to date resurgence.

Classics professor David Young, who has researched the topic for over 25 years, unearths how the traditional Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand competition, attracting loads of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.

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