ASIN: B00IYVQGMS
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 40
*Includes pictures.*Includes ancient accounts about the Games.*Includes a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents.“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”- Epictetus“Many are the sights to be seen in Greece, and many are the wonders to be heard; but on nothing does Heaven bestow more care than on the Eleusinian rites and the Olympic games.” - PausaniasWhile they are still well-known, the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece are more relevant today than most people know, and the ways in which athletic sports pervade contemporary culture is comparable only to the spirit of athleticism in Hellenic Greece. Today, a large section of the media industry is devoted exclusively to sports, and in some nations, sports even figures as a critical component of their identity. In ...
