This book is the only up-to-date general introduction to ancient Greek sport now available in English. Its subjects include the origins and history of the Olympic games, athletic nudity, ...

Did the ancient Greek soldier Pheidippides actually ... a member of the organizing committee for the first Olympics, proposed that the distance between the battle site of Marathon and the Greek ...

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Housing, Theory and Society, p. 1. The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

From narrowly avoiding being eaten by his father as a baby to seducing mortal women as a swan or a bull, there were some ...

"Imaginary Books," an upcoming show at New York's Grolier Club takes a counterfactual tour around the literary universe.

We’ve curated a selection of the best books about Greek mythology to help you better understand the classic tales of ancient history below. Known as the first and greatest literary achievement ...

How did ancient Greece begin? The first Olympic games and new discoveries How was ... told stories of the Mycenaean age in his books The Iliad and The Odyssey. After the Mycenaean age ended ...