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Kitroeff, Alexander

Wrestling With the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics

Greekworks.Com, 2004

45,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
2004
ISBN
0974766003
Luogo di stampa
New York
Autore
Kitroeff, Alexander
Editori
Greekworks.Com
Edizione
1st US Edition
Soggetto
MODERN GREECE SOCIOLOGY CUSTOMS OLYMPIC GAMES
Descrizione
New
Descrizione
H
Sovracoperta
Stato di conservazione
Nuovo
Legatura
Rilegato
Copia autografata
No
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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