Name: A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics (en Inglés)
SKU: 9163488
Price: 40.37 USD
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Author: Neil Faulkner
ISBN: 9780300159073

portada A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics (en Inglés)

A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Yale University Press

Autor

Neil Faulkner

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0300159072

ISBN13

9780300159073

N° edición

Categorías

Antigua grecia
Historia antigua
Historia de europa

A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics (en Inglés)

Neil Faulkner (Autor) · Yale University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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 pentathlon, horse and chariot races, and three combat sports—wrestling, boxing, and pankration, everyone's favorite competition, with virtually no rules and considerable blood and pain. This colorfully illustrated volume offers a complete tour of the Olympic site exactly as athletes and spectators found it. The book evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the crowded encampment; introduces the various attendees (from champions and charlatans to aristocrats and prostitutes); and explains the numerous exotic religious rituals. Uniquely detailed and precise, this guide offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to travel in time, back to the excitement of ancient Olympia.