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Tag: Ancient Olympics
Slideshow: Ancient Games at the British Museum
I’m sure we’ll see more of this exhibit over the next while:
Some Ancient/Modern Olympics Commentary
A couple of items of interest comparing Olympics ancient and modern:
- The real ancient Olympic spirit: political, bawdy, and brutal (Boston Globe) [by Neil Faulkner, of Military Times and Current Archaeology fame]
- Paying your way to the Olympics (Courier) [by David Pritchard from UQueensland]
Ancient and Modern Olympics Blog
It came to my attention this past week that Dr Jason Konig from St Andrews has started up an excellent blog devoted to the Ancient and Modern Olympics. It will be featured in our Blogosphere posts from this point on, but I did want you to get a sense of ‘what you’ve missed’:
- Citizenship and athletic victory
- The torch relay and ancient festival envoys
- Why did ancient athletes cover themselves in oil?
- A travelling athlete
- A visitor to the Olympics
- Olympic preparations
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