Rosemary Sutcliff children’s book and story A Crown of Wild Olive (The Truce of the Games) tells the story of the Olympics.
In fact, it is the newer title of a book originally published as The Truce of the Games. The tale is of two athletes from different ways of life who discover the meaning of friendship as they compete against each other in the ancient Olympic games. A Crown of Wild Olive was published in the collection Heather, Oak, and Olive (1972).
A Crown of Wild Olive | Rosemary Sutcliff story of the Greek Olympics
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I first came across it as The Truce of the Games, and marvelled how there could be so much story in so few pages.
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