Power games : ritual and rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics /
This narrative, told from a spectator's viewpoint, revolves around the Games of 416 BC - a turning point in Greek politics when a cold war between Athens and other major cities was about to erupt into bloody fighting. See what it was like to be there, to witness the rituals, bloody contests, ce...
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London :
British Museum Press,
2012.
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