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A guide to the ancient Olympics features a program of events, transportation options as provided by passenger ferry and ox cart, accommodations, and dining options, all as they would have appeared in 338 BC in the spectacle's early days.
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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A guide to the ancient Olympics features a program of events, transportation options as provided by passenger ferry and ox cart, accommodations, and dining options, all as they would have appeared in 338 BC in the spectacle's early days. What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture and discover what the Greeks did and didn't do during five thrilling days in August 2,400 years ago. In the Olympic Stadium there were no stands, no shade-and no women allowed. Visitors sat on a grassy bank in the searing heat of midsummer to watch naked athletes compete in footraces, the pe |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index. |
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9780300159073 : 0300159072 |
| Index Number: | DF261 |
| CLC: | G811.219 |
| Call Number: | G811.219/F263 |
| Contents: | The basics -- Finding your way around -- Myths -- History -- Management -- The athletes -- The programme. |