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Olympia Guide to the local modern city. (Up 3/13/20; posted 2/21/10)
Live Science Serious academic site. (Up 3/13/20)
2004 Athens games Official Olympic site. (Up 2/9/14; posted 9/26/12)
Ancient Olympic games From the official Olympic site. (Up 3/13/20)
The Blue Guide to Greece

Very useful overview, if somewhat dry. Authoritative. I've reviewed this elsewhere.

 

Stephen G. Miller
Ancient Greek Athletics
Yale U., 2004

He discusses the various games and takes us through an typical game at Olympia. He looks at the secondary "money" games, the role of women, training, and other topics. 250 plus pages, many illustrations, mostly black and white.

 

Panos Valavanis
Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Istmia, Nemea, Athens

A large format coffee table book, with good text. 400 plus pages, many illustrations.

 

 

Michael Llewellyn Smith
Olympics in Athens 1896

The story of the rebirth of the games.

 

 

Gianna Angelopoulos
My Greek Drama

Autobiography of the woman who saved both the proposal for Greece to get the 2004 games and then saved the process of preparing the games themselves.

 

 

Manolis Andronicos
Olympia

This is a guide in the Ekdotike Athenon series. Do not know if it has been recently updated, my copy is 2004.

 

Ministry of Culture
Olympia

From 2009, this is a more modern form of guide to the finds at the site. Focus on objects in the museum.

 

Last modified 4/2/20; posted 2/21/10; original content © 2020, 2010 John P. Nordin