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Books
- The Ancient Olympic Games by Judith Swaddling (British Museum Press, 2004)
- Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen G Miller (Yale University Press, 2004)
- The Ancient Greek Olympics by Richard Woff (British Museum Press, 1999)
- Athletries. The Untold Story of Greek Women Athletes by A Reese and I Vallera-Rickerson (Night Owl Publications, 2002)
- Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport by D Sansone (University of California Press, 1988)
- Greek and Roman Athletics - A Bibliography by TF Scanlon (Ares Publishers, 1985)
- The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics by DC Young (Library of Ancient Athletics, Chicago, 1985)
- Sport and Society in Ancient Greece by Mark Golden (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
- Sport in the Ancient World from A to Z by Mark Golden (Routledge, 2003)
- Arete. Greek Sports from Ancient Sources by Stephen G Miller (University of California Press, 2004)
About the author
Dr Judith Swaddling is an Assistant Keeper in the Greek and Roman Department at the British Museum. She is author of The Ancient Olympic Games, a guide to both the games and the site of ancient Olympia. She acted as consultant for a documentary video on the ancient Olympics made for the International Olympic Committee.

