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Paul Christesen is Associate Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College.
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Foreword
Introduction
I. The Earliest Days of Greek Athletics
II. Nudity and Equipment
III. The Events at a Competition
a. Running
b. Wrestling
c. Boxing
d. Pankration
e. Pentathlon
f. Equestrian
g. Herald and Trumpeter
h. Music
i. Poetry and Prose Composition
j. Acting
k. Painting
IV. Organization of a Panhellenic Festival
a. Preparations at the Site
b. Preparations of the Athletes
c. The Truce
d. Preliminaries: Registration and Certification
e. Schedule, Heats, and Pairings
f. Prohibitions and Penalties
g. Officials
h. Rewards for Victory
V. Local Festivals
a. The Panathenaic Games of Athens
b. The Eleutheria of Larissa in Thessaly
c. The Bomonikai of Sparta
VI. The Role of the Games in Society
VII. Women in Athletics
VIII. Athletes and Heroes
IX. Ball playing
X. Gymnasion, Athletics, and Education
XI. The Spread of Greek Athletics in the Hellenistic Period
XII. Greek Athletics in the Roman Period
XIII. Amateurism and Professionalism
XIV. Nationalism and Internationalism
a. Relations between the Panhellenic Sanctuaries
b. Relations between City-States and the Panhellenic Sanctuaries
c. Relations between City-States at the Panhellenic Sanctuaries
XV. Beauty and Reality
Appendix: The Olympian and Pythian Programs
Select Bibliography
Index and Glossary
Sources for the Chapter-Opening Sketches
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