The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey

The Ancient Olympics

Nigel Spivey

273 pages 2004

3 editions

nonfiction history sports informative slow-paced
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The word "athletics" is derived from the Greek verb "to struggle or to suffer for a prize." As Nigel Spivey reveals in this engaging account of the Olympics in ancient Greece, "suffer" is putting it mildly. Indeed, the Olympics were not so much a ...

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