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2006Profusion de fotografias en color.
2006Profusion de fotografias en color.
2006Profusion de fotografias en color.
2009Profusion de fotografias en color.
2006Profusion de fotografias en color.
1960No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards and a little bumping to corners. 416pp. A very comprehensive work covering sixty-five different sports from air records to wrestling. Statistics and results since the first events ever played in many sports. Illustrated in black & white photographs.
1976Minor Shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Describes the context of the Games, giving a valuable backcloth of the growth of Greek civilisation and of the Greek states, and of the social, religious, and political importance of the Games. ; 138 pages
1964Minor wear to boards. 1 corner lightly bumped. ; A classic in the history of Naval Warfare. ; 2.13 x 9.34 x 6.42 Inches; 555 pages
1984Very light bump to 1 corner. Very minor shelfwear to DJ. Else Fine. ; 208pp, illustrated.; 208 pages
1987Light shelfwear. ; Reprint of the 1930 ed. , with a new preface by S. G. Miller. Xviii, 246pp, illustrated. ; 246 pages
1976Dustjacket is protected in mylar. Minor Shelfwear. ; Describes the context of the Games, giving a valuable backcloth of the growth of Greek civilisation and of the Greek states, and of the social, religious, and political importance of the Games. ; 138 pages
1986DJ Spine is sunned. Very light shelfwear to book. ; 1.11 x 8.57 x 6.16 Inches; 348 pages; Shortly before the launch of the reconstructed Greek warship, Olympias, the first edition of The Athenian Trireme was published, providing historical and technical background to the reconstruction of the ship. Since then, five seasons of experimental trials have been conducted on the ship under oar and sail, and the lessons learned have been supplemented by new archaeological discoveries and by historical, scientific and physiological research over the past fifteen years. For this second edition, the text has been recast and a number of substantive changes have been made. In addition, there is an entirely new chapter that describes the trials of Olympias in detail, reports the performance figures, and outlines the changes desirable in any second reconstruction. There are nineteen new illustrations, including eleven photographs of Olympias at sea demonstrating features of the design that could be represented only by drawings in the first edition.
2011Minor shelfwear. Small chip to spine. Gift card to R. E. Fantham affixed to titlepage. ; In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. A large, detailed model based on modern research and excavation reconstructs the site of ancient Olympia, where alongside religious and civic buildings there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool and a race-course. Later chapters cover the diet and medical treatment of athletes, sponsorship, patronage, propaganda and revivals of the Games and a brand new chapter, based on the lateste research discusses the literary sources for the Olympic Games. The expanded final chapter on the modern Games is written in collaboration with Stewart Binns, an expert in this field who has worked closely with the International Olympic Committee over many years, and has been revised to bring the story up to the preparations for the London 2012 Games. Illustrated with gorgeous, full-colour photography and covering thousands of years of Olympic history, this fascinating book is essential reading for anyone interested in the Olympic Games. ; 9.6 X 7.5 X 0.6 inches; 120 pages
1991Light creasing to spine. Minor shelfwear. Former owner's name to ffep. ; 239 pages; From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources--Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, Xenophon on female body building. With fully twice as many texts as the highly successful first edition, this new version of Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers--the ancients themselves. These sources, which Miller himself has translated, provide unparalleled insights into ancient athletic practices and competitive festivals. They emphasize the fundamental role of athletics in education and shed light on such issues as the role of women in athletics and the politics and economics of the games. Ultimately they demonstrate that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete and so closely associated in the modern mind with Greek athletics are only part of the story from antiquity.
1997Digitally reprinted. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Cambridge Classical Studies; 8.5 X 5.6 X 1.2 inches; 340 pages
2003Faint shelfwear. Minor crease to spine. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
2003Small stain to titlepage and inner cover. Minor crease to corner of rear wrap. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
1985Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has laminate lifting to front panel and some scratches to rear panel. Some staining to reverse of rear panel of DJ. ; 11.2 X 8.4 X 0.8 inches; 207 pages
2003Faint shelfwear. A few small indents to front wraps. ; Excavations of the Athenian Agora Picture Book No. 25; 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.1 inches; 32 pages
1990Gift inscription to Dan Geagan from Kyle to ffep. Includes letter to Geagan from Kyle tipped in. Faint creasing along top edge of DJ. ; The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Number 24; 9.2 X 6.3 X 0.7 inches; 168 pages; Signed by Editor
1960Very minor shelfwear to vols. ; Vol. I: (1960) 73 pp & Vol. II: (1960) 134 pp; Beiträge Zur Lehre Und Forschung Der Leibeserziehung, Band 5 & 8; Vol. 1/2/2022; 134 pages
2009Slight sticker residue to DJ. ; From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions. ; Fordyce W. Mitchel Memorial Lecture; 8.7 X 5.8 X 1.0 inches; 232 pages
2009Faint creasing to rear wrap. ; 320 pages
1982Small tear to head of spine. ; Xviii, 202pp, illustrated. A leading authority on classical games here provides a comprehensive study of the practice of combat sports in the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Describing and analyzing the sports of boxing, wrestling, stick-fighting, and pankration, Michael B. Poliakoff discusses such topics as the function of competition and violent games in ancient society; on the social background of the participants, showing the broad spectrum of Greek athletic personnel; on the significance of the appearance of combat sport in myth and literature; and on the alleged cultic functions of the ancient combat sports. The book is copiously illustrated with photographs of numerous objects rarely or never before published. ; Beiträge Zur Klassischen Philologie Heft 146; 202 pages
1998Scholars' bookplate to inner cover (Slater & Dunbabin). Upper front corner creased. ; Key Themes In Ancient History; 8.7 X 5.9 X 0.6 inches; 232 pages
