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Bettany Hughes, Tim Whitmarsh, Charlotte Higgins and Oliver Taplin
The Greeks 7 - Heroisation
Hay Festival 2012,
The classicists examine the recounting of funeral games, athletic odes and Olympic trials in Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Bacchylids and Euripides. What are athletes for?