The Archaeology of the Olympics: The Olympics and Other Festivals in Antiquity (Wisconsin Studies in Classics) - Softcover

Raschke, Wendy J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299113345 ISBN 13: 9780299113346

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002

Synopsis

The Archaeology of the Olympics presents a stirring reevaluation of the Olympic Games (and related festivals) as they actually were, not as the ancient Greeks wished—and we still wish—they might have been. Historians, archaeologists, and classicists examine the evidence to ask such questions as, How did the athletes train? What did they eat? Can we trace the roots of the games as far back as the Bronze Age of Crete and Mycenae? Or even to Anatolia, where similar athletic activities occurred? Were the ancient games really so free of political overtones as modern Olympic rhetoric urges us to believe?

About this title

From the Publisher:

Wisconsin Studies in Classics Richard Daniel De Puma and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer, General Editors

About the Author:

Wendy J. Raschke is professor of classics at the University of California, Riverside.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0299113345
• ISBN 13: 9780299113346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328