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...practice, Classics 206 relies on a couple of textbooks on Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Greeks at Old Sewanee | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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