A brief history of the Olympic games /
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004
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Series: | Brief histories of the ancient world.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |