The Olympic games : the first thousand years /
In this beautifully illustrated and eye-opening book, the author and his associate have accomplished the near impossible: a brilliant history of the mysterious and little-known events on which our modern Olympic Games were patterned. They tell us not only what the actual sporting events and rules we...
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Olympic games : |b the first thousand years / |c M.I. Finley and H.W. Pleket. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Viking Press, |c [1976] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1976 | |
| 300 | |a xv, 140 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color), maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Plates -- Note on Greek measures of distance and money values -- Table of dates -- Ancient and modern -- Games and festivals -- Olympic programme -- Spectators and facilities -- Rules and officials -- Athletes -- Training and trainers -- Games, politics and patronage -- Critics -- Epilogue -- Colour plates: I. Olympia today -- II(a) Bronze statue of a charioteer -- (b) Chariot race at Patroclus' funeral games -- III(a) Hoplite formation in action -- (b) Race in Armour -- IV. Four-horse chariot -- V(a) Pentathlon -- (b) Sprinter -- VI. Javelin-thrower -- VII. Running styles: Sprinting -- Long-distance -- VIII. Alexander the Great -- Black-and-white plates: First modern Olympic games in Athens, 1896 -- Torch race -- Doric temples: Temple of Hera at Olympia -- Hephaesteum in Athens -- Tribute to the Gods: Model of a section of the main shrine at Olympia -- Bronze chariot and charioteer -- Bronze tripod and cauldron -- Gods and Goddesses at Olympia: Zeus -- Heracles -- Hera -- Tombstone of a poet, possibly Pindar -- Inscription commemorating an athlete's achievements -- Coins: Nike Goddess of Victory -- Mule-cart race -- Wrestlers -- Discus-thrower -- Zeus with wild olive wreath, Olympia -- Celery wreath, Nemea -- Cup from Phidias' workshop at Olympia -- Sacrifice: Preparation for the slaughter -- Burnt offering -- Harnessing a two-horse chariot -- Horse race -- Patroclus' funeral games -- Statuette of a runner -- Long jump -- Stone jumping weight -- Discus-thrower -- Discobolus of Myron -- Javelin thrower -- Two boxing scenes -- Scenes of the pankration -- Wrestling -- Stadium at Delphi today -- Nemea today -- Aerial view of Olympia today -- Stadium at Olympia today -- Starting line and gate at Isthmia today -- Statue-base with the record of an Athenian wrestler and pankratiast -- Papyrus of an athlete's certificate of membership in the Association of Touring Athletes -- Stele of a decree of the Acarnanian League re-establishing the Games at Actium -- Gymnasium at Pergamum: Reconstruction -- Plan -- Gymnasium (or palaestra) scenes: Boy mounting a horse -- Mocking a fat youth -- Caricatures: Pankratiast -- Dwarf boxer -- Gymnasium scenes: Massage -- Pederasty -- Head of a boxer -- Nero -- Hadrian -- Herodes Atticus -- Inscription recording a boy athlete's achievements -- Gorgos' seat at Olympia -- Drawing lots -- Figures: Starting gate for the chariot race at Olympia -- Marking the discus throw -- Javelin finger-thongs -- Judges' stand at Olympia -- Boxer's hand binding -- Armed runners -- Plan of Olympia: Sixth and fifth centuries B.C. -- Plan of Olympia: Fourth century B.C. -- Plan of Olympia: Hellenistic age -- Plan of Olympia: Roman imperial age -- Statue of Zeus by Phidias -- Fountains of Herodes Atticus at Olympia -- Dwarf pankratiast -- Athletes exercising and practicing in a gymnasium -- Tombstone of Diodorus -- Jumper practicing -- Maps: Greek world -- Greek mainland. | |
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