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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global society. Historical perspectivesPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011Description: xvi, 186 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415667534
  • 9780415667531
Uniform titles:
  • International journal of the history of sport.
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.48309495 23
LOC classification:
  • GV613 .S66 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.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.48309495 SPO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A417486B

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

`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.

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