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Submission Fighting and the Rules of Ancient Greek Wrestling

by Christopher Miller
published on 05 January 2012
The Ancient Greek sports are remarkable in human history and instructive to those interested in promoting athletics due to their recorded longevity of more than a millennium, their high levels of participation amongst the people of the time, and the great degree of enthusiasm clearly demonstrated for these sports through period artwork and through remunerations... [continue reading]
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Play and childhood in ancient Greece

by Eliseo Andreu Cabrera, Mar Cepero, Fco. Javier Rojas, Juan J Chinchilla-Mira
published on 05 March 2012
The traditional games of children are the maximum exponent of a people’s culture of play, and though these games are sometimes derived from adult ceremonies, in spirit they belong to the world of children. Most authors assume that games depend on biological, cultural and psychological influences; they are considered a typical anthropological phenomenon... [continue reading]
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Rites of Passage and their Role in the Socialization of the Spartan Youth

by Metaxia Papapostolou, Pantelis Konstantinakos, Costas Mountakis, Kostas Georgiadis / Department of Sport Management, (University of Peloponnese)
published on 14 February 2012
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of rites of passage in the socialization of Spartan youth. Methodologically, our discussion will be based upon ancient literary sources, in particular Plutarch, Xenophon and Pausanias, interdisciplinary approaches initiated by modern historians and sociologists, and archaeological evidence. ... [continue reading]
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On War and Games in the Ancient World

by T.J. Cornell
published on 12 March 2013
That there is a connection between warfare and sport is evident enough. Competitive games, in the form of contests between individuals or teams, imitate war in a more or less conscious manner. This fact is most obviously reflected in the language of sport. When sports writers use terms like catastrophe, tragedy, massacre, or annihilation, people sometimes... [continue reading]
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Sports Sites in Ancient Anatolia: Stadiums

by Erdoğan Ş., Atalay M., Yoruç Çotuk M.
published on 05 March 2012
Today we have much evidence that modern Sports Culture has its roots in Ancient Olympic Games. Many excavations are held by archaeologists to understand the idea of sport as the ancient world’s culture by searching Ancient Olympia. However there are many ancient stadiums and maybe many more are waiting to come into daylight all over the world, where... [continue reading]

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  • 776 BCE
    First athletic games in honour of Zeus are held at Olympia.
  • 586 BCE
    First athletic games at Delphi.
  • 580 BCE
    First athletic games at Isthmia.
  • 573 BCE
    First athletic games at Nemea.
  • 271 BCE
    Final Games at Nemea.
  • 261 CE
    Last documented victor at Olympic Games.
  • 393 CE
    Roman Emperor Theodosius definitively ends all pagan Games.