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Author Lunt, David James, author.

Title The Crown Games of ancient Greece : archaeology, athletes, and heroes / David Lunt
Published Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2022
© 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 163 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Sport, culture & society
Contents Introduction -- Athletes, Festivals, and The Crown Games -- Olympia and the Olympian Games -- Nemea and the Nemean Games -- Isthmia and the Isthmian Games -- Delphi and the Pythian Games -- Crowned Champions -- Conclusions
Summary "The Crown Games offered a rare point of cultural unity amid the wide geography and fierce regional independence of the ancient world. This volume focuses on these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world-a vast and sprawling territory that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2022)
Subject Athletics -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
Sports -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
Sports -- Anthropological aspects -- Greece
Sports -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History
Sports festivals -- Greece
SPORTS & RECREATION / General
Athletics.
Sports.
Sports -- Anthropological aspects.
Sports festivals.
Sports -- Social aspects.
Greece.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021039327
ISBN 161075767X
1682262006
9781682262009
9781610757676