Sports and Games of the Ancients

Name: Sports and Games of the Ancients
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ISBN: 9780313361203

ISBN-10: 0313361207

ISBN-13: 9780313361203

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Authors: Steve Craig

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Based on reports from 19th century explorers, museum artifacts, and other historical documents, the rules, equipment, and diagrams as they are currently understood are provided here for readers, along with suggestions for adapting these sports and games for modern times. Sports enthusiasts and students will find this volume a valuable resource for discovering the earliest beginnings of our modern-day sports.Divided according to seven geopolitical regions of the world, Sports and Games of the Ancients describes the sports, games, and play of our earliest ancestors. Their need for survival in often hostile conditions enable them to develop skills such as long distance running or archery, and…

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List price: $31.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 6/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

David Rosand is Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian; Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto; Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages; Myths of Venice: The Figuration of a State; and Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and Representation.