Required Texts for CLAS/HIST 240 Ancient
Societies:
SPORT and RECREATION
1st Semester 2000-2001
Department of Classics,
Monmouth College
(listed alphabetically)
Bowra,
C. M. The Odes of Pindar.
New York: Penguin
1982
Miller,
Stephen G. Arete.
Berkeley: University of California Press
2nd ed., 1991
Swaddling,
Judith, The Ancient Olympic Games.
Austin: The University of Texas Press
2nd. ed., 1999
Sweet,
Waldo. Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece. (Sorry, no bookcover
available.)
New York: Oxford University Press
1987
Young,
D.C. Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletes. (Sorry, no bookcover
available.)
Chicago: Ares Publishers, Inc.
1984
Standing offer for extra credit: If you submit a 250-word review of one of these books to barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com and send the link to the instructor, you will get extra credit in this course. This offer expires on Nov. 30, 2000.
This material has been published on the web by Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College. If you have any questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.
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