| List of Illustrations | xv | | | | List of Commonest Abbreviations | xxv | | | | PART I | | | | | A HISTORY OF GREEK ATHLETICS AND ATHLETIC FESTIVALS FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 393 A.D. | | | | | 1. Introductory | 1 | | | 2. Athletics in Homer | 8 | | | 3. The Rise of the Athletic Festival | 27 | | | 4. The Age of Athletic Festivals, Sixth Century B.C. | 62 | | | 5. The Age of the Athletic Ideal, 500-440 B.C. | 86 | | | 6. Professionalism and Specialization, 440-338 B.C. | 122 | | | 7. The Decline of Athletics, 338-146 B.C. | 146 | | | 8. Athletics under the Romans | 163 | | | 9. The Olympic Festival | 194 | | | 10. The Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Festivals | 208 | | | 11. The Athletic Festivals of Athens | 227 | | | | PART II | | | | | THE ATHLETIC EXERCISES OF THE GREEKS | | | | | 12. The Stadium | 251 | | | 13. The Foot-Race | 270 | | | 14. The Jump and Halteres | 295 | | | 15. Throwing the Diskos | 313 | | | 16. Throwing the Javelin | 338 | | | 17. The Pentathlon | 359 | | | 18. Wrestling | 372 | | | 19. Boxing | 402 | | | 20. The Pankration | 435 | | | 21. The Hippodrome | 451 | | | 22. The Gymnasium and the Palaestra | 467 | | | BIBLIOGRAPHY | 511 | | | INDEX | 519 | | | INDEX OF GREEK WORDS | 531 |
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