A Visitor's Guide to the Ancient Olympics

by Neil Faulkner

An essential book for the 21st-century citizen who seeks a lively guided tour of the ancient Greek Olympics

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300159072
• ISBN13: 9780300159073
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.4"