The ancient Olympic Games

by Judith Swaddling

Book Overview

For over 1,000 years, between 776 BC and AD 395, people from all over the classical world flocked every four years to Olympia in Western Greece to see famous athletes compete for the olive crowns of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714120022
• ISBN13: 9780714120027
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Published for the trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

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Olympia & the Ancient Games

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