Recommended readings
- Crowther , Nigel B. 1995 . “Team Sports in Ancient Greece: Some Observations” . International Journal of the History of Sport , 12 : 127 – 136 .
- Finley , Moses I. and Pleket , Henry W. 1976 . The Olympic Games: The First Thousand Tears , London : Chatto & Windus .
- Golden , Mark . 1998 . Sport and Society in Ancient Greece , Cambridge : University of Cambridge .
- Harris , Harold A. 1964 . Greek Athletes and Athletics , London : Hutchinson .
- Kyle , Donald G. 1987 . Athletics in Ancient Athens , Leiden : E.J. Brill .
- Pleket , Henry W. 1975 . “Games, Prizes and Ideology. Some Aspects of the History of Sport in the Greco‐Roman World” . Stadion , 1 : 49 – 89 .
- Poliakoff , Michael B. 1987 . Combat Sports in the Ancient World , New Haven and London : Yale University Press .
- Scanlon , Thomas F. 1988 . “Combat and Contest: Athletic Metaphors for Warfare in Greek literature” . In Coroebus Triumphs: The Alliance of Sport and the Arts , Edited by: Bundy , S.J. San Diego : San Diego State University Press .
- Young , David C. 1996 . The Modem Olympics: A Struggle for Survival , Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press .