The Smell of Sweat: Greek Athletics and Greek Culture

by William Blake Tyrrell

Tyrrell (classics, Michigan State U.) deploys references from the popular media of the day to piece together a picture of Greek athletics and the changes it underwent through the Archaic and Classical periods, the eighth to the fourth century BCE. He finds that 19th- and 20th-century advocacy of Olympic amateurism, supported by erroneous attributio

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086516553X
• ISBN13: 9780865165533
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.