Required Texts for CLAS/HIST 240 Ancient Societies:
SPORT and RECREATION in the Ancient World

1st Semester 2004-2005
Department of Classics,
Monmouth College

(listed alphabetically)

Bowra, C. M. The Odes of Pindar.
New York: Penguin
1982

 

 

 

Mahoney, Anne. Roman Sports and Spectacles
Newburyport, MA:  Focus
2001

Miller, Stephen G. Arete.
Berkeley: University of California Press
3rd ed., expanded, 2004

 

 

Perrottet, Tony. The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Olympics
New York: Random House
2004

 

 

Swaddling, Judith. The Ancient Olympic Games.
Austin: The University of Texas Press
2nd. ed., 1999

 

 

Tyrrell, William Blake. The Smell of Sweat. Greek Athletics and Greek Culture. 
Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
2003
For more information about this book, click here.

Standing offer for extra credit: If you submit a 250-word review of one of these books to www.barnesandnoble.com or www.amazon.com and send the link to the instructor, you will get extra credit in this course. This offer expires on Nov. 30, 2004.
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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