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• Schaus, G. P. and Wenn, S.R., Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games (Waterloo Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier Press 2007) [Publications of the Canadian Institute on Greece, 5.] twenty-three papers
  
  

• Nigel B. Crowther, "The Ancient Olympic Games through the Centuries," 3-13.
• Senta C. German, "Politics and the Bronze Age Origins of Olympic Practices," 15-25
• Thomas K. Hubbard, "Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyle, and the Foundation of the Olympic Games," 27-45
• Max Nelson, "The First Olympic Games," 47-58
• Paul Christesen, "The Transformation of Athletics in Sixth Century Greece," 59-68
• Nigel B. Crowther, "The Ancient Olympics and their Ideals," 69-80
• Victor Matthews, "Olympic Losers: Why Athletes Who Did Not Win at Olympia Are Remembered'" 81-93.
• David G. Romano, "Judges and Judging at the Ancient Olympic Games," 95-113
• Aileen Ajootian, "Heroic and Athletic Sortition at Ancient Olympia," 115-129
• Donald G. Kyle, "Fabulous Females and Ancient Olympia," 131-152
• Hugh M. Lee, "The Halma: A running or Standing Jump?" 153-165
• Gerald P. Schaus, "Connections between Olympia and Stymphalus," 167-178
• Robert Weir, "Commemorative Cash: the Coins of the Ancient and Modern Olympics"

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• Christesen, Paul, Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007).
  
  
• Crowther, Nigel B., "Studies in Greek Athletics," Classical World 78.5 (May-June 1985) 497-558 [PART I] and 79.2 (1985) [PART II] (extensive bibliographies)
  
  
• Dayton, John C., The Athletes of War. An Evaluation of the Agonistic Elements in Greek Warfare (Campbellville Ontario: Edgar Kent 2006).
  
  
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• Perrottet, Tony, The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games (NY: Random House 2004).
  
  
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• Sansone, David, Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1992)
  
  
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