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Excerpt from Syracuse University Stadium It is probable that for no other people in history have athletic games and contests played such an important role as for the ancient Greeks and Romans. The big games and other competitions which were arranged by them from time to time aroused such an interest and enthusiasm as to make theni' national festivals, the importance of which it is difficult for' later generations to realize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.