Onward to the Olympics historical perspectives on the Olympic Games
The Olympic games have had two lives--the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides...
| Otros Autores: | , |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2007.
|
| Colección: | Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece ;
no. 5. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35849162*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Gerald P. Schaus
- Part I. The Olympics in antiquity
- The ancient Olympic games through the centuries / Nigel B. Crowther
- Origins. Politics and the Bronze Age origins of Olympic practices / Senta C. German
- Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyl, and the foundation of the Olympic games / Thomas K. Hubbard
- The first Olympic games / Max Nelson
- The transformation of athletics in sixth-century Greece / Paul Christesen
- Ideals and losers. The ancient Olympics and their ideals / Nigel B. Crowther
- Olympic losers : why athletes who did not win at Olympia are remembered / Victor Matthews
- Details of the festival. Judges and judging at the ancient Olympic games / David Gilman Romano
- Heroic and athletic sortition at ancient Olympia / Aileen Ajootian
- Fabulous females and ancient Olympia / Donald G. Kyle
- The Halma : a running or standing jump? / Hugh M. Lee
- Another view of Olympia. Connections between Olympia and Stymphalus / Gerald P. Schaus
- Commemorative cash : the coins of the ancient and modern Olympics / Robert Weir
- Part II. The modern Olympics
- The Olympic games in modern times / Robert K. Barney
- The Olympics before World War II. Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic champion and Uncle Sam's adopted son : the cultural context of a Hawaiian conqueror / Jim Nendel
- Carl Diem's inspiration for the torch relay? Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, and the origin of the Olympic flame / Robert K. Barney and Anthony Th. Bijkerk
- The great progression : a content analysis of the Lake Placid News and the Los Angeles Times' treatment of the 1932 Olympics / Jonathan Paul
- The Olympics after World War II. Womanizing Olympic athletes : policy and practice during the Avery Brundage era / Kevin B. Wamsley
- The bridge to change : the 1976 Montreal Olympic games, South African apartheid policy, and the Olympic boycott paradigm / Courtney W. Mason.
- Splitting hairs : the struggle between the Canadian Federal government and the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Torontolympiad concerning South African participation / David A. Greig
- Juan Antonio Samaranch's score sheet : revenue generation and the Olympic Movement, 1980-2002 / Stephen R. Wenn and Scott G. Martyn
- The future of the Olympic games. Olympic ideals : pragmatic method and the future of the games / Tim Elcombe
- "To construct a better and more peaceful world" or "War minus the shooting?" : the Olympic Movement's second century / Mark Dyreson
- Glossary of terms.
