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The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.

Covering a wide range of Greek and Roman sporting activities, this volume includes more than 700 entries discussing ancient athletes, festivals, important sites, equipment and concepts. Each entry concludes with pointers to the most important sources of information, both ancient and modern.

A concise introduction to ancient Greek sport.

A noted authority on ancient sport discusses various ways in which the ancient Greeks, as well as people today, used sports to achieve social status.