The Art of Running: Learning to Run Like a Greek: Learning to Run Like a Greek 11 A Times Literary Supplement Book

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The Art of Running: Learning to Run Like a Greek: Learning to Run Like a Greek 11 A Times Literary Supplement BookJoin Andrea Marcolongo, renowned classicist and one of today's most original thinkers on antiquity, for an inspiring journey as she learns to run and to live like a Greek. Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of athletic prowess. They invented sport and they were also