Handbooks

Golden, M. (2004) Sport in the ancient world from A to Z (London and New York: Routledge) [Full Text available online]

 

Miller, S.G. (2004) Ancient Greek Athletics (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) [2 copies in main library GV 21.M4]

 

Kyle, D.G. (2015) Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell) [Full Text available online / short loan copy in main library GV573.K95]

 

Sourcebooks

Miller, S.G. (2004) Arete: Greek Sport from Ancient Sources (3rd ed.) (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London University of California Press) [Full Text available online / copy in main library GV21.A73]

 

Stocking, C.H., and Stephens, S.A. (2021) Ancient Greek Athletics: Primary Sources in Translation (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Online version on order / £25.99 to buy on Amazon]

 

Themes

Scanlon, T.F. (2002) Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Full Text available online / 3 copies in main library GV 21.S2]

 

König, J. (2005) Athletics and Literature in the Roman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) [2 copies in the main library GV 31.K6]

 

Newby, Z. (2005) Greek Athletics in the Roman World (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Full Text available online / 3 copies in main library GV 573.N3]

 

Golden, M. (2008) Greek Sport and Social Status (Austin: University of Texas Press) [Full Text available online]

 

Papakonstantinou, Z. (2019) Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece (London: Routledge) [Full Text Available online]

 

Paganini, M.C.D. (2021) Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Online version on order]