Download or read book Let s Have Our Own Ancient Greek Olympic Games written by Meredith Curtis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn History the Fun Way-with Ancient Greek Olympic Games. What could be more fun than competing with other families, or friends, while you reenact Classical Greece with competitions, prizes, and fun? You might want to name your teams after Greek city-states like we did. Does the thought of setting up and running Olympic Games overwhelm you? Don't worry about a thing. Laura and Meredith have enjoyed Ancient Greek Olympic Games with their own children and homeschool co-op. They will walk you step-by-step through the process of planning and hosting your own historical event. This book contains information on the original Olympic Games held at Mount Olympia near Elis, including information on the different events. Merey and Laura give you suggestions for serious competitive events, as well as not-so-serious events that will have everyone laughing. The planning process is broken down to sizeable portions with suggestions on how to set up a field. This will make a great addition to your study of Ancient History, or a great finale to a related unit study. Here are the chapters in Let's Have Our Own Ancient Greek Olympic Games: Our Olympic Games The Ancient Olympic Games Let's Plan the Games Set Up the Field The Itinerary Resources for Studying the Ancient Greece History should be Fun!"
Download or read book The Ancient Olympics written by Nigel Jonathan Spivey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were--fierce contexts between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. Bitterly Contested and often bloody, the ancient Olympics were no an idealistic celebration of unity, but a clash of military powers in an arena not far removed from the battlefield. The author explores what the events were, the rules for competitors, training and diet, the pervasiveness of cheating and bribery, the prizes on offer, the exclusion of "barbarians," and protocols on pederasty. He also peels back the mythology surrounding the games today and investigates where our current conception of the Olympics has come from and how the Greek notions of beauty and competitiveness have influenced our modern culture.
Download or read book From Democrats to Kings written by Michael Scott and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular history of how the ancient world turned from a democracy to a monarchy and “shine[s] a light on the culture that bloomed as Athens faded.”(The Daily Mail) Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighboring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absolute monarch and a model for despots for millennia to come: Alexander the Great. In this superb popular history, Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world went from democracy to monarchy in less than 100 years. A superb example of popular history writing, From Democrats to Kings gives us a fresh take on the challenges we face today as democracies—old and new—fight for survival, in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable and in which the severity of the economic crisis is only matched by a crisis in our own sense of self. “Accessible and punchy . . . a wide readership cannot fail to be entertained as well as instructed about a world that is both familiar and alien, modern as well as ancient.” —Paul Cartledge, author of Thermopylae “Gloriously entertaining and provocative.” —Tom Holland, author of Rubicon, Persian Fire
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Download or read book Athletics in the Ancient World written by E. Norman Gardiner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text focuses mostly on athletics in classical Greece and Rome, emphasizing the relationship between athletics and religion, art, and education. Also discussed are such events as throwing the discus and javelin, the pentathlon, the stadium and the foot-race, jumping, wrestling, boxing, ball play, and a Greek athletic festival. According to the Times (London) Literary Supplement, the book "should command the attention not only of classical scholars but of all who are interested in athletics for their own sake; and for such readers, [the author] has spared no pains to make his work intelligible." Unabridged republication of Athletics of the Ancient World, originally published by the Oxford University Press, London, 1930. 137 black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography. Index and Glossary.
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Download or read book Plutarch s Lives Translated from the Original Greek written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The complete works written by Publius Aelius Aristides and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aelius Aristides is one of the most important sources for the history of the social, cultural, and religious life of the second century of the Roman Empire. However, the difficulty of his style and the occasional obscurity of the material contained in his writings have effectively prevented modern historians from fully utilizing his works. To remedy this deficiency, in conjunction with the new edition of the Greek text of Aristides, which was earlier published by Brill, a translation of all of Aristides' works into a modern language has been prepared. The translation, which also includes the first collection of fragments of lost works of Aristides and inscriptions which pertain to him, has been made according to the new revision of the Greek text and is provided with a commentary and index, which will facilitate its use by both specialists and laymen alike.
Download or read book The Youth s Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
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Download or read book The Bible Exposition Commentary written by Warren W. Wiersbe and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2003 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 of the Bible Exposition Commentary 6-volume set
Download or read book The Ring written by Steve Ostrow and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen has never been performed in Israel. Now, for the first time, the Israeli Government has decreed that, in keeping with the 2013 announcement of Tel Aviv’s being granted the 2020 Olympiad, and as a gesture of universal peace and forgiveness, Wagner’s Ring will be the key cultural event highlighting the games. Heinrich von Hoffmanstahl, the world’s greatest authority on the works of Wagner, an Austrian, has been engaged to conduct, and he has full authority to cast the singers. The Israeli Philharmonic will play with a huge international cast. Will the festival come off, or will powerful forces world-wide make another Munich out of the whole event? The PLO plots against it, as does the Hamas, the militant Islamic terrorist group and the Lebanese based Hezbollah. The clock ticks and the world waits.
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