The Olympic Myth of Greek Amateur Athletics
Author | : David C. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David C. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Golden |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292778953 |
From the ancient Olympic games to the World Series and the World Cup, athletic achievement has always conferred social status. In this collection of essays, a noted authority on ancient sport discusses how Greek sport has been used to claim and enhance social status, both in antiquity and in modern times. Mark Golden explores a variety of ways in which sport provided a route to social status. In the first essay, he explains how elite horsemen and athletes tried to ignore the important roles that jockeys, drivers, and trainers played in their victories, as well as how female owners tried to rank their equestrian achievements above those of men and other women. In the next essay, Golden looks at the varied contributions that slaves made to sport, despite its use as a marker of free, Greek status. In the third essay, he evaluates the claims made by gladiators in the Greek east that they be regarded as high-status athletes and asserts that gladiatorial spectacle is much more like Greek sport than scholars today usually admit. In the final essay, Golden critiques the accepted accounts of ancient and modern Olympic history, arguing that attempts to raise the status of the modern games by stressing their links to the ancient ones are misleading. He concludes that the contemporary movement to call a truce in world conflicts during the Olympics is likewise based on misunderstandings of ancient Greek traditions.
Author | : Thomas Francis Scanlon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David C. Young |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801872075 |
Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.
Author | : David C. Young |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470777753 |
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
Author | : Judith Swaddling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
For over one thousand years between 776 B.C. and A.D. 395, princes, statesmen, and famous athletes gathered every four years at Olympia in western Greece to compete for the olive crowns of the ancient Olympic Games. Judith Swaddling traces the mythological and religious origins of the games and describes the events, religious ceremony, and celebrations that were an essential part of the Olympic festival. The book also features a large, detailed model of the site of ancient Olympia, where, alongside religious and civic buildings, there grew an elaborate sports complex with a stadium for 40,000 spectators, indoor and outdoor training facilities, hot and cold baths, a swimming pool, and a race course. This fascinating description of Ancient Olympia and the Games is superbly illustrated with vases, sculpture and other works of art, views of the site and photographs of the unique model.
Author | : Keith Hopwood |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Civilization, Classical |
ISBN | : 9780719024016 |
Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a military figure, showing how he was not apolitical or disinterested in politics. The book combines narrative and thematic approaches to explore the wider issues of popular allegiance, puritan religion, concepts of honour, image, reputation, memory, gender, literature, and Fairfax's relationship with Cromwell. 'Black Tom' delivers a groundbreaking examination of the transformative experience of the English revolution from the viewpoint of one of its leading, yet most neglected, participants. It is the first modern academic study of Fairfax, making it essential reading for university students as well as historians of the seventeenth century. Its accessible style will appeal to a wider audience of those interested in the civil wars and interregnum more generally.
Author | : Matthew P Llewellyn |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252098773 |
For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements. Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation took place. Drawing on Olympic archives and a wealth of research across media, the authors examine how an elite--white, wealthy, often Anglo-Saxon--controlled and shaped an enormously powerful myth of amateurism. The myth assumed an air of naturalness that made it seem unassailable and, not incidentally, served those in power. Llewellyn and Gleaves trace professionalism's inroads into the Olympics from tragic figures like Jim Thorpe through the shamateur era of under-the-table cash and state-supported athletes. As they show, the increasing acceptability of professionals went hand-in-hand with the Games becoming a for-profit international spectacle. Yet the myth of amateurism's purity remained a potent force, influencing how people around the globe imagined and understood sport. Timely and vivid with details, The Rise and Fall of Olympic Amateurism is the first book-length examination of the movement's foundational ideal.
Author | : Sofie Remijsen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107050782 |
A comprehensive study of how and why athletic contests, a characteristic feature of ancient Greek culture, disappeared in late antiquity.
Author | : Neil Faulkner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300159072 |
A guide to the ancient Olympics features a program of events, transportation options as provided by passenger ferry and ox cart, accommodations, and dining options, all as they would have appeared in 338 BC in the spectacle's early days.