The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity (Wisconsin Studies in Classics)

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The Archaeology of the Olympics presents a stirring reevaluation of the Olympic Games (and related festivals) as they in reality were, not as the ancient Greeks wished—and we still wish—they may have been. Historians, archaeologists, and classicists examine the evidence to invite such questions as, How did the athletes train? What did they eat? Are we able to trace the roots of the games way back to the Bronze Age of Crete and Mycenae? And even to Anatolia, where identical athletic activities occurred? Were the ancient games in point of fact so free of political overtones as up to date Olympic rhetoric urges us to consider?


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