The Olympic Games
Subtitle: the first thousand years
By:  M.I. Finley and H.W. Pleket.
Contributors: Pleket, H. W.
Publisher: TheViking Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Description: In this beautifully illustrated and eye-opening book, the author and his associate have accomplished the near impossible: a brilliant history of the mysterious and little-known events on which our modern Olympic Games were patterned. They tell us not only what the actual sporting events and rules were, but who the athletes were and how they were trained, how the games were financed and managed, and how the participants viewed the games themselves.