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Thinking the Olympics - The Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (Paperback, New)
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Thinking the Olympics - The Classical Tradition and the Modern Games (Paperback, New)
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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, celebrated, exploited, or
challenged. The Athens Games in 2004 were widely represented as a
return to ancient, and modern, origins; the Beijing Games in 2008,
meanwhile, saluted a radically different ancient civilisation. What
is the Olympic future for ancient Greece? Thinking the Olympics
brings together contributions from various disciplines, including
cultural history, classics, comparative literature, and art
history. Together these perspectives foreground two opposing plots
which recur and collide ritually on the occasion of the Games. On
the one hand, the Games present themselves as an ideal enactment of
pure, intrinsic Olympic values; on the other, the Games appear as a
messy performance of extrinsic investments by diverse parties with
their own interests, commercial and political. Power, money,
property, and identity are persistently at stake in the Games. But
in a time when credit and trust among nations are in short supply,
the Olympic arena and its flexible traditions may be where exchange
can be done.
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