- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2List of Illustrations
- 3List of the Commonest Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- 4Part I — A History of Greek Athletics and Athletic Festivals From t…
- 5Chapter II — Athletics in Homer
- 6Chapter III — The Rise of the Athletic Festival
- 7Chapter IV — The Age of Athletic Festivals, Sixth Century B.C.
- 8Chapter V — The Age of the Athletic Ideal, 500-440 B.C.
- 9Chapter VI — Professionalism and Specialization, 440-338 B.C.
- 10Chapter VII — The Decline of Athletics, 338-146 B.C.
- 11Chapter VIII — Athletics Under the Romans
- 12Chapter IX — The Olympic Festival
- 13Chapter X — The Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Festivals
- 14Chapter XI — The Athletic Festivals of Athens
- 15Part II — The Athletic Exercises of the Greeks With an Account of T…
- 16Chapter XIII — The Foot-Race
- 17Chapter XIV — The Jump and Halteres
- 18Chapter XV — Throwing the Diskos
- 19Chapter XVI — Throwing the Javelin
- 20Chapter XVII — The Pentathlon
- 21Chapter XVIII — Wrestling
- 22Chapter XIX — Boxing
- 23Chapter XX — The Pankration
- 24Chapter XXI — The Hippodrome
- 25Chapter XXII — The Gymnasium and the Palaestra
- 26Bibliography
Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals
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