David Lunt is associate professor of history at Southern Utah University, where he teaches ancient history and conducts research on the role of sports in society. His scholarship on ancient athletics has appeared in numerous publications, including the Journal of Olympic Studies, the Journal of Sport History, and The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport.

"The Crown Games offered a rare point of cultural unity amid the wide geography and fierce regional independence of the ancient world. This volume focuses on these festivals in the context of the ancient Greek world-a vast and sprawling territory that stretched from modern Spain to the Black Sea and North Africa"--