This comprehensive text focuses mostly on athletics in classical Greece and Rome, emphasizing the relationship between athletics and religion, art, and education. Also discussed are such events as throwing the discus and javelin, the pentathlon, the stadium and the foot-race, jumping, wrestling, boxing, ball play, and a Greek athletic festival. 137 black-and-white illustrations.
Chapter 1. THE MEANING OF ATHLETICS
Chapter 2. SPORTS OF THE ANCIENT EAST
Chapter 4. ATHLETICS AND RELIGION
Chapter 6. ATHLETICS AND EDUCATION
Chapter 9. THE STADIUM AND THE FOOT-RACE
Chapter 11. THROWING THE DISKOS
Chapter 12. THROWING THE JAVELIN
Chapter 17. A GREEK ATHLETIC FESTIVAL