Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Peinture and his Monument to Marshal

and his Monument to Marshal de Villars in Denain

evoking a certain melancholy

a female heroine

posterior crown

as well as the diversity of techniques used

Quand les grecs anciens faisaient du sport. Peinture and his Monument to MarshalFar from the stereotypes and misconceptions that contemporary sports competitions claim to embrace, Alexandre Farnoux here paints a precise picture of sport among the ancient Greeks. Drawing on the rich collections of the Louvre, combined with textual sources, he succeeds in restoring the practices of the Greeks in all their strange and unexpected aspects, and brings to life before our eyes the animation of a gymnastics lesson or the atmosphere of