SPORT IN GREEK ANTIQUITY:
A BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY



  • 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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  • Buchanan, D., Greek Athletics (London 1972).

  • Buffiere, F., Eros adolescent. La pederastie dans la Grèce antique (Paris 1980).

  • 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).

  • Decker, W., "Furor circensis," Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001) 499-512.

  • Decker, W. and J. Thuillier, Le Sport dans l' antiquité. Egypte, Grèce et Rome (2004).

  • Delorme, J., Gymnasion (Paris 1960) [BEFAR, 187].

  • Drees, L., Der Ursprung der olympischen Spiele (1962) [Beiträge Lehre Forsch. Leib., 13]

  • Forbes, C.A., Greek Physical Education (New York 1929).

  • Gardiner, E. N., Athletics of the Ancient World (Oxford 1930; Chicago: Ares 1978).

  • Gardiner, E. N., Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals (London 1910).

  • Golden, M., Sport and Society in Ancient Greece (1998).

  • Golden, M., Sport and Society in the Ancient World: From A to Z (NY Routledge 2003).

  • Hard, Robin, Olympic Games and other Greek Athletic Festivals (NY Routledge 2006).

  • Harris, H. A., Greek Athletes and Athletics ((London: Thames & Hudson 1964).

  • Harris, H. A., Sport in Greece and Rome (London 1972).

  • Harris, H. A., Greek Athletics and the Jews (Cardiff 1976).

  • Hawhee, Debra, Bodily Arts. Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (Austin: U. Texas Press 2005).

  • Jacobelli, Luciana, Gladiators in Pompeii (Los Angeles: Getty Publications 2003) [Gladiatori a Pompeii (Roma: Bretschneider 2003)]

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  • Kennell, Nigel M., The Gymnasium of Virtue. Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta (Chapel Hill: UNC 1995).

  • Koenig, Jason, Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge: CUP 2005).

  • Meuli, Karl, Die griechische Agon (Koeln 1968).

  • Miller, Stephen G., ARETE: Ancient Writers, Papyri and Inscriptions on the History and Ideals of Greek Athletics and Games (Chicago: Ares, 1979).

  • Miller, Stephen G., Ancient Greek Athletics

  • Moretti, Luigi, Inscrizioni agonistiche greche (Roma 1953).

  • Moretti, Luigi, Olympionikai. I vincitori negli antichi agoni olimpici (Roma 1959) [Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 8].

  • Mouratidis, J., Greek Sports, Games and Festivals before the 8th Century B.C. (1983).

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  • Newby, Zahra, Athletics in the Ancient World (London and Bristol: Bristol Classical Press 2006).

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  • Perrottet, Tony, The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games (NY: Random House 2004).

  • Phillips, David and David Pritchard (edd.), Sport and Festival in the Ancient Greek World (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales 2003).

  • Poliakoff, Michael, Combat Sports in the Ancient World (New Haven: Yale 1987).

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  • Robinson, Rachel S. Sources for the History of Greek Athletics (Cincinnati 1955; Chicago: Ares 197 ).

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  • Sansone, David, Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport (1992)

  • Scanlon, Thomas F., Greek and Roman Athletics (Chicago Ares 1984)

  • Schaus, Gerald P., and Stephen R. Wenn (edd.), Onward to the Olympics: Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games (Wilfrid Laurier University 2007) [Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece, no. 5].

  • Sirracos, Constantine, History of the Olympic Games (Seabury Publishing 2000).

  • Stecher, Anton, Grabgedichte auf Krieger und Athleten (Innsbruck 1981) [Commentationes Aenipontanae, 27].

  • Swaddling, Judith, The Ancient Olympic Games 2nd edition (Austin: U. Texas Press 2000).

  • Thompson, Homer A., "The Panathenaic Festival," AA (1961) 224-231.

  • Touny, A.D. & Wenig, S., Sport in Ancient Egypt (Amsterdam 1970).

  • Weiler, Ingomar, Der Sport bei den Voelkern der Alten Welt (Darmstadt 1981).

  • Welch, K., "Recent Work on Amphitheatre Architecture and Arena Spectacles," Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001) 492-498.

  • Welch, K., The Roman Amphitheatre. From its Origins to the Colosseum (2004).

  • Yalouris, Nicholas (ed.), The Eternal Olympics (New York 1979).

  • Young, David C., The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics (Chicago 1984).

  • Young, David C., A Brief History of the Olympic Games (2004).







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