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273 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780192806048
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: Not specified
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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 gracef...
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273 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780192806048
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 gracef...