| List of Illustrations | [xv] |
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| List of Commonest Abbreviations | [xxv] |
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| PART I | |
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| A HISTORY OF GREEK ATHLETICS AND ATHLETIC FESTIVALS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 393 A.D. | |
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| 1. Introductory | [1] |
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| 2. Athletics in Homer | [8] |
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| 3. The Rise of the Athletic Festival | [27] |
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| 4. The Age of Athletic Festivals, Sixth Century B.C. | [62] |
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| 5. The Age of the Athletic Ideal, 500-440 B.C. | [86] |
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| 6. Professionalism and Specialization, 440-338 B.C. | [122] |
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| 7. The Decline of Athletics, 338-146 B.C. | [146] |
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| 8. Athletics under the Romans | [163] |
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| 9. The Olympic Festival | [194] |
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| 10. The Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Festivals | [208] |
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| 11. The Athletic Festivals of Athens | [227] |
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| PART II | |
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| THE ATHLETIC EXERCISES OF THE GREEKS | |
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| 12. The Stadium | [251] |
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| 13. The Foot-Race | [270] |
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| 14. The Jump and Halteres | [295] |
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| 15. Throwing the Diskos | [313] |
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| 16. Throwing the Javelin | [338] |
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| 17. The Pentathlon | [359] |
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| 18. Wrestling | [372] |
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| 19. Boxing | [402] |
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| 20. The Pankration | [435] |
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| 21. The Hippodrome | [451] |
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| 22. The Gymnasium and the Palaestra | [467] |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY | [511] |
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| INDEX | [519] |
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| INDEX OF GREEK WORDS | [531] |