Greek athletics in the Roman world victory and virtue /

Includes information on Athens, baths, boxing, Capitoline games at Rome, crowns, discus thrower statue, festivals, Gaul, gymnasium, Hadrian, Heracles, homoeroticism, identity, Myron, Nero, Olympic games, Ostia, Pausanias, Philostratus, Polycletius, Pomeii, Rome, sculpture, Sparta, theatre, victory s...

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Main Author: Newby, Zahra.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Physical Description: xiv, 314 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm.
Series: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation.
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