Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History

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Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History is written by Paul Christesen and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521866340 (ISBN 10) and 9780521866347 (ISBN 13).

This is the first comprehensive examination of Olympic victor lists. The origins, development, content, and structure of Olympic victor lists are explored and explained, and a number of important questions, such as the source and reliability of the year of 776 for the first Olympics, are addressed. Olympic victor lists emerge as a clearly defined type of literature that is best understood as a group of closely related texts.