Blacklock, Dyan Pankration: the Ultimate Game Whitman, c1997 191 pages.
Set in Greece in 430 B.C. the story tells of Nic who is sent from home because of the plague spreading in Athens. He is taken by pirates and sold as a slave. Nic knows his only friend, Gellius, will be at the Olympic Games. Nic escapes and makes his way to his friend for help.
This book pictures the Olympics and especially the Pankration....a good adventure: pirates, thieves, and treachery. Pankration: pronounced either pahn-KRAHT-ee-uhn or pan-KRAY-shun
