A fascinating exploration of the relation of the Modern Olympic Games to the Classical tradition, examining claims of continuity between ancient and modern.
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Barbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK.
Michael Simpson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
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Paperback. Etat : Gut. XI, 227 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen, Vorderschnitt und Fußschnitt leicht angeschmutzt, sonst guter Zustand / slightly scuffed, fore-edge and bottom edge slightly soiled, otherwise good condition. - Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: Game Plan Barbara Goff 1. Pythagoras and the Origins of Olympic Ideology Nigel Spivey 2. True Heroes and Dishonourable Victors at Olympia David Gilman Romano 3. To Give Over Ones Heart: Pindar, Bataille and the Poetics of Victory Damian Stocking 4. Epideictic Oratory at the Olympic Games Eleni Volonaki 5. Living in the Shadow of the Past: Greek Athletes during the Roman Empire Stephen Brunet 6. Gilbert West and the English Contribution to the Revival of the Olympic Games Hugh Lee 7. James Barrys Crowning the Victors at Olympia: Transmitting the Values of the Classical Olympic Games into the Modern Era William Pressly 8. The Race for a Healthy Body: The Ancient Greek Physical Ideal in Victorian London Debbie Challis 9. Nervis Palazzo and Palazzetto dello Sport: Striking a Delicate Balance between Past and Present in 1960 Rome Ann Keen 10. Trailing the Olympic Epic: Black Modernity and the Athenian Arena, 2004 Michael Simpson 11. Pindar at the Olympics: The Limits of Revivalism Armand DAngour Afterword: London 2012 Tessa Jowell Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780715639306 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383. N° de réf. du vendeur 1173707
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise, sporting achievement, and catastrophic shortcoming, so the revived Games have been consistently cast as a legacy of ancient Greece. The essays here examine how this supposed inheritance has been engineered, celebrated, exploited, or challenged. The Athens Games in 2004 were widely represented as a return to ancient, and modern, origins; the Beijing Games in 2008, meanwhile, saluted a radically different ancient civilisation. What is the Olympic future for ancient Greece?Thinking the Olympics brings together contributions from various disciplines, including cultural history, classics, comparative literature, and art history. Together these perspectives foreground two opposing plots which recur and collide ritually on the occasion of the Games. On the one hand, the Games present themselves as an ideal enactment of pure, intrinsic Olympic values; on the other, the Games appear as a messy performance of extrinsic investments by diverse parties with their own interests, commercial and political. Power, money, property, and identity are persistently at stake in the Games. But in a time when credit and trust among nations are in short supply, the Olympic arena and its flexible traditions may be where exchange can be done. A fascinating exploration of the relation of the Modern Olympic Games to the Classical tradition, examining claims of continuity between ancient and modern. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780715639306
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