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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1976 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
History & legend are combined in this account of the first Olympics.
Language: en
Pages: 84
Pages: 84
Type: BOOK - Published: 1980 - Publisher:
For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to com
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-14 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
The word 'athletics' is derived from the Greek verb 'to struggle for a prize'. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Gr
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 200
Pages: 200
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-15 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth c