An Athletics Compendium

L 237 - 248 Poetiy McGough, Roger 237 Sporting relations; with illustrations by the author. Expanded andrev. ed. London: Viking, 1996. vii, 71p; illus ISBN: 0-670-86883-3 BL: YK.1996.a.22701 Includes a number of short, humorous poems, including eleven loosely related to athlefteicasturing a sprinter, low hurdler, cross-countryrunner, high jumper, triple jumper, shotputter, hammer thrower, javelin thrower and caber tosser. Nichols, Grace 238 Give yourself ahug; illustrated by Kim Harley. London: A. & C. Black, 1994. 64p; illus; index ISBN: 0-7136-4054-5 BL: YK.1995.a.5209 Includes Whenmy friend Anitaruns'. For children. Nonnus, of Panopolis 239 Dionysiaca. With aEnnglish translationby W. H. D. Rouse. London; Heinemann, 1940. 3 vols. (Loeb classical library) BL: 2282.d.l54 Book 37 ofthis epic poemwritten about AD500, and derivative ofHomer, describes the games held at the funeral of Opheltes, including foot race, discus and javelin. Pindar 240 The Olympick odes a[nId II] of Pindar, iEnnglish meetre, as they were lately found in an original manuscript of those sublime lyrick translators, STte.mhold, J. Hopkins, and others / translated by Philhomeropindarus, in a style intendedto burlesque that of Sternhoaldnd Hopkins's version othfe Psalms. London: E. Curll, 1713. 36p BL: 161.k.33 241 Odes of Pindar with several other pieces in prose and verse; translated fromthe Greek by G. W., to which is prefixed A dissertation on the Olympic Games by Gilbert West. London: Dodsley, 1749. BL: 74.f.l0 West givestranslations thoef Olympic,Nemean and Isthmian Odes. His dissertatioins a lengthy essay on the history tohfe OlympicGames whichincludes the arguments for dating their origin as 776 13C.There is also atranslation of Lucian's Of GymnaEsxtiecrcises. 'To recompense the women for their being excluded from the Olympic Games, they also celebrated a festival of their own, instituted, as it is said, in honour of Olympian Juno, bHy ippodamia, the wife of Pelops. In this festival thveirgins, distributedinto threeclasses, according to theirdifferent ages, contendedin the foot-race: from which agreeable spectacle, I am willing to hope, fothr e sakeof both sexes, thathte men were not excluded'. 242 Six Olympic odes of Pindar: being those omibtytedMr West, translated into English verse by H. 1. Pye. London: White, 1775. vii, 73p BL: 237.h.l6 243 The Olympian anPdythian Odes (theNemean and Isthmian Odes), with notes, explanatory and critical, introductions, and introductory essays / C. A. M. FenneU. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1879-1883. 2 vols. BL: 11335.ee.4 This text insoteworthy for the inclusoiofnan article on the pentathlon as it was organised in classical times. Pindar, Peter 244 The bench in an uproar!!, or. Chop-fallen magistrate: a poem. London: 1816? Author is possiblyCF. . Laivler BL: C.131.d.5(10) A poem occasioned by the proceedings consequent upon the arrestby the Greenwichmagistrates of the pedestrian George Wilson. Quintus Smymaeus 245 The fallof Troy; with an English translatiobyn Arthur S. Way. Greek & English. London: Heinemann, 1913. xi, 627p; index (Loeb classical library) BL: 2282.d.l5 Book 4describes thgeames for thefuneral of Achilles. Richardson, George (pedestrian) 246 The Irish footman's poetry, or, George the Runner against Henry theWalker, in defence of John the Swimmer [i.e. Taylor, the Water Poet]: being a sur- rejoinde tothe rejoinder of the rusty Ironmonger [i.e. H. Walker] who endeavoured to deftihle cleare streames of the Water-Poet's helicon. London: 1641. BL: 11623.bb.37 Roberts, George 247 The prospect, or. Rural sports: a poem to which is added, a letter to a young lady in Worcestershire. London: 1754? 22p BL: 11630.e.5(4) Rye, Walter 248 Rubbish and nonsense. Norwich: A. Goose, 1887. 160p BL: 012330.k.35 A miscellaneous collectionof prose andpoetry that includes the critical verses about J. G. Chambers and his control of the AAC. [ 174 ]