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World's Oldest Sports Manual Found

Posted: October 20th, 2011, 11:38 am
by Lee Moses
It seems a wrestling manual has been uncovered dated A.D. 200.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/f ... =oly-wp818

Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found

Posted: October 21st, 2011, 3:36 am
by RandallButh
Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago. (I don't have a library available to verify this.)

It is bizarre in the extreme to see it listed as a newsarticle of a recent discovery. The news media in question just lost a few points in reliability.

Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found

Posted: October 22nd, 2011, 2:09 am
by George F Somsel
Randall Buth wrote:
Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago
Could've, should've, would've — apparently it was not since it is located at Columbia University rather than with the other papyri from Oxyrhynchus. It isn't in the Duke database of papyri.

Re: World's Oldest Sports Manual Found

Posted: October 22nd, 2011, 9:26 am
by Ken M. Penner
George F Somsel wrote:Randall Buth wrote:
Actually, Oxyrhinchous iii 466 should have been published a century ago
Could've, should've, would've — apparently it was not since it is located at Columbia University rather than with the other papyri from Oxyrhynchus. It isn't in the Duke database of papyri.
You can read it at http://www.archive.org/stream/oxyrhynch ... 3/mode/2up