Showing The Ancient Olympic Games by Judith Swaddling

The Ancient Olympic Games, Judith Swaddling, Foreword by HRH the Princess Royal. "For over 1,000 years, between 776 BC and 395 AD, citizens from all over the classical world flocked every four years to Olympia in western Greece to see famous athletes compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games." ... "Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations, that were an essential part of the Olympic festival."