Volume 51, Number 16 · October 21, 2004
The Myth of the Olympics
By Jasper Griffin
The Ancient Olympics: A History
by Nigel Spivey
Oxford University Press, 273 pp., $28.00
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens
by Panos Valavanis
Getty Museum, 448 pp., $75.00
Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics
by Alexander Kitroeff
Greekworks, 277 pp., $32.00
Olympics in Athens, 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games
by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Profile Books, 290 pp., £16.99
Ancient Greek Athletics
by Stephen G. Miller
Yale University Press, 288 pp., $35.00
In Athens it is all over. The Olympic flame is extinguished for another two years. The tumult and the shouting dies; the trainers and the fans depart. Questions still linger about the Olympic Games. They 'returned,' we were ecstatically told, to Greece. What does that mean? What were those ancient Games, why were they important then, and why are they still alive now?
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