Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Thinking The Olympics The Classical Tradition And The Modern Games - Paperback Folk Metal Barcode: 9780008447878

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - Thinking The Olympics The Classical Tradition And The Modern Games - Paperback Folk Metal Barcode: 9780008447878Binding: Paperback Description: This book is the first to focus on the theme of tradition as an integral feature of the ancient and modern Olympic Games. Just as ancient athletes and spectators were conscious of Olympic traditions of poetic praise sporting achievement and catastrophic shortcoming so the revived Games have been consistently cast as a legacy of ancient Greece. The essays here examine how this supposed inheritance has been engineered

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