A brief history of the Olympic games / David C. Young.

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classi...

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Main Author: Young, David C.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Series:Brief histories of the ancient world.
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