Greek Athletics: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Greek Athletics, credited to Frederick Adam Wright, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Greek Athletics by Frederick Adam Wright. Read in English by Heather Eney. The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts from witnesses, the Iliad, etc. as they pertain to famous Greeks and events. He discusses Greek views of physical appearance and fitness as they pertain to the games and society and also how and why individual city-states chose to participate (or not) in the Olympics. (Summary by Heather Eney)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Greek Athletics
• Author credits: Frederick Adam Wright
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:06:16

Catalogue topics

• Greek
• health
• boxing
• athletics
• olympics
• running
• competition
• spartans

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 4:47
2. 01 - Athletics and Athletic Festivals — 25:39
3. 02 - Gymnastics and Military Training Part 1 — 25:31
4. 03 - Gymnastics and Military Training Part 2 — 29:10
5. 04 - Physical Education — 35:25
6. 05 - Health and Bodily Exercise — 41:00
7. 06 - Galen's Treatise on the Small Ball — 24:44

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