Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Egypte he immerses us in the

he immerses us in the heart of the hardworking and pious Breton society of the first half of the 20th century

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

ranging from the Mesopotamian

The daily lives

Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Egypte he immerses us in theFar 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