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Kitroeff, Alexander

Wrestling With the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics

Greekworks.Com, 2004

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Year of publication
2004
ISBN
0974766003
Place of printing
New York
Author
Kitroeff, Alexander
Publishers
Greekworks.Com
Edition
1st US Edition
Keyword
MODERN GREECE SOCIOLOGY CUSTOMS OLYMPIC GAMES
Cover description
New
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Wrestling With The Ancients . especially focuses upon the time span ranging from the nineteenth-century origins of the modern Olympic games to the present day, and the interconnection between the Olympics and Greek nationalism. A chapter by chapter discussion of : Greece's Olympics /The 1896 Olympic games in Athens The Athens interim Olympics of 1906/Rediscovering the classical legacy Greece and the Berlin Olympiad/Olympia and the cold war/ Greece as the permanent Olympic venue? /Atlanta 1996 and how Greece lost the centenary games / Winning and almost losing the 2004 Athens Olympiad / Countdown to Athens 2004. A well y researched, methodical tour through Olympic history and its reverberations upon Greek national identity" viii, 276p.+ plates, illus.bibliography, index. Publisher's PR book mark laid in