A brief history of the Olympic games /

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
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
Series:	Brief histories of the ancient world.
Subjects:	Olympic games (Ancient) > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book