"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.
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.
Series:
Sport in the global society. Historical perspectives
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