Sansone, David, Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1988.

Daley, Arthur and Kieran, John, The Story of the Olympic Games, J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1969.

Gardiner, E. Norman, Athletics of the Ancient World, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, London, 1967.

Harris, H.A., Sport in Greece and Rome, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1972.

Gardiner, E. Norman, Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals, Edited by Roger K. Burke, Brown Reprints, USA, 1970.

Webpage sites

The Historical Stuff, http://www.cam.org/~fishon1/olhist.html

Olympics History, http://www.sportsnetusa.com/olympics/history.html

The History of the Olympic Games, http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/olympic/history/GamesHistory.html

The Ancient Olympic Games, http://pages-plus.com/Olympic/pelops.html

History of the Ancient Olympics, http://www.ausport.gov.au/anc.html

The Temple of Zeus - Virtual Reality Tour, http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/olympic/site/vrindex.html

The Location of Ancient Olympia, http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/olympic/site/location.html

The Temple of Hera and the Stadium, http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/olympic/site/hera.html

The Temple of Zeus, http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/olympic/site/zeus.html

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