THE GAMES

A historical overview: Athletic games throughout Antiquity

The games of the periodos
* The Olympic games (beginning & end, program)
* The Pythian games
* The Isthmian games
* The Nemean games

* The Capitolian games
* The Actian games

Other Greek contests
* The funeral games of Patroklos
* The Panathenaic games
* The Heraia at Argos
* The Ptolemaia
* The is-Olympic and iso-Pythian games
* The crown-games
* Greek games and athletes in North-Africa and the Middle-East

Roman games, a different world
* Roman spectacles: gladiatorial combat, wild animal hunts and chariot races
* The Roman attitude towards Greek sport

THE ORGANISATION

* The ambassadors and the sacred truce
* The organisers/presidents
* The hellanodikai
* The umpires
       * Rules and corporal punishments
       * Corruption and fines
* The Olympic council
* Olympic oath
* Sortition of the athletes
* The trainers
* The spectators