Onward to the Olympics : historical perspectives on the Olympic Games

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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...

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Other Authors: Wenn, Stephen R. (Stephen Robert), 1964-, Schaus, Gerald P., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007
Series:Publications of the Canadian Institute in Greece ; no. 5.
Subjects:
Olympic games (Ancient) > History.
Olympics > History.
Electronic books.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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