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SPIVEY, NIGEL: THE ANCIENT OLYMPICS.
(Oxford), Oxford Univ. Press, (2004). Cloth, fine in d/w, map, illust., pp. xxi, 273. ISBN 0-19-280433-2. ¶ A study of the long history of the Olympic institution with reference to social behaviour, sexual habits, and the aesthetic ideas of Classical antiquiry. The author argues that, whilst winning at any cost was what mattered most at the games, the original Olympics were a remarkably stable and profoundly civilized institution.
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