Arete
Subtitle: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, Expanded edition
Edition: 2 Exp Sub edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780520075085
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sources; Athletic Sports And Games; Sports & Recreation; Literary Criticism; Ancient Greece; Sports; Ancient - General; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; History / Ancient / General; Greece; History; Sports in literature
First sentence: In the two passages from Homer which are presented here a picture emerges of what we may call Homeric athletics.