Sport, bodily culture and classical antiquity in modern Greece / edited by Eleni Fournaraki and Zinon Papakonstantinou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Phournarakē, Helenē.

Papakonstantinou, Zinon

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Series:

Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Greece--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Nationalism and sports--Greece.

Nationalism and sports.

Olympics--Philosophy.

Olympics.

Human body (Philosophy).

Olympic games (Ancient)--Influence.

Olympic games (Ancient).

Civilization.

Greece--Civilization--20th century--Classical influences.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

`Prologue : sport, bodily culture and classical antiquity in modern Greece / Zinon Papakonstantinou

From antiquity to Olympic revival : sports and Greek national historiography (nineteenth-twentieth centuries) / Christina Koulouri

Bodies that differ : mid- and upper-class women and the quest for "Greekness" in female bodily culture (1896-1940) / Eleni Fournaraki

"Resurrecting" ancient bodies : the tragic chorus in Prometheus bound and Suppliant women at the Delphic Festivals in 1927 and 1930 / Antonis Glytzouris

Rallying the nation : sport and spectacle serving the Greek dictatorships / Gonda van Steen

Fanning the flame : transformations of the 2004 Olympic flame / Eleana Yalouri

Epilogue : new directions in classical reception, sport and the body in modern Greece / Zinon Papakonstantinou.

Notes:

"This book is a reproduction of the International journal of the history of sport, vol. 27, issue 12"--T.p. verso; published in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

0415667534

9780415667531

OCLC:

702873478

Publisher Number:

99951372032