Epikoinos: The Ball Game Episkuros and… : DASH Story 2017-05-16
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My grandson is a soccer player of eleven studying Ancient Greece in school. I was a classics major ages ago and this article allows us to see the game of episkuros in social and Homeric depth. I read homer at Columbia with prof Howard Porter in the 1960s. In general terms the relation between war and competitive sports persists through millennia
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