Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Egypte embroidery from royal workshops

embroidery from royal workshops

in addition to their book "The Builders of Karnak"

Hospitalities in Mediterranean Antiquity)

ranging from the Mesopotamian

published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition proposed by the Institut du monde arabe-Tourcoing

Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Egypte embroidery from royal workshopsFar from the stereotypes and misconceptions that contemporary sports competitions claim to embrace, Alexandre Farnoux here paints a precise picture of sport among the ancient Greeks. Drawing on the rich collections of the Louvre, combined with textual sources, he succeeds in restoring the practices of the Greeks in all their strange and unexpected aspects, and brings to life before our eyes the animation of a gymnastics lesson or the atmosphere of