The Victor's Crown: How the Birth of the Olympics and the Rise of The Roman Games Changed Sport For Ever by David Stone Potter

The Victor's Crown: How the Birth of the Olympics and the Rise of The Roman Games Changed Sport For Ever

David Stone Potter

449 pages • first pub 2012 (view editions)

nonfiction history sports informative slow-paced
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Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC...

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