PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF THE COMMONEST ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
PART I A HISTORY OF GREEK ATHLETICS AND ATHLETIC FESTIVALS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 393 A.D.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II ATHLETICS IN HOMER
CHAPTER III THE RISE OF THE ATHLETIC FESTIVAL
CHAPTER IV THE AGE OF ATHLETIC FESTIVALS, SIXTH CENTURY B.C.
CHAPTER V THE AGE OF THE ATHLETIC IDEAL, 500-440 B.C.
CHAPTER VI PROFESSIONALISM AND SPECIALIZATION, 440-338 B.C.
CHAPTER VII THE DECLINE OF ATHLETICS, 338-146 B.C.
CHAPTER VIII ATHLETICS UNDER THE ROMANS
CHAPTER IX THE OLYMPIC FESTIVAL
CHAPTER X THE PYTHIAN, ISTHMIAN, AND NEMEAN FESTIVALS
CHAPTER XI THE ATHLETIC FESTIVALS OF ATHENS
PART II THE ATHLETIC EXERCISES OF THE GREEKS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR STADIA AND GYMNASIA
CHAPTER XII THE STADIUM
CHAPTER XIII THE FOOT-RACE
CHAPTER XIV THE JUMP AND HALTERES
CHAPTER XV THROWING THE DISKOS
CHAPTER XVI THROWING THE JAVELIN
CHAPTER XVII THE PENTATHLON
CHAPTER XVIII WRESTLING
CHAPTER XIX BOXING
CHAPTER XX THE PANKRATION [741]
CHAPTER XXI THE HIPPODROME
CHAPTER XXII THE GYMNASIUM AND THE PALAESTRA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
INDEX OF GREEK WORDS
