SPORT AND MEDICINE DURING GREEK ANTIQUITY AND ROMAN IMPERIAL TIMES

This study examines the relationship between gymnastics and medicine using literary sources from the Greco-Roman period. Throughout ancient Greek literature gymnastics was presented in relation to medicine. Gymnasts were not always distinguished from physicians. Gymnastics was thought to protect fro...

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