Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many
facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the
Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were
appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states,
athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports
enthusiasts is only very partially understood.
This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in
depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical
antiquity in modern sport, spectacle and bodily culture. For
citizens of the Greek nation-state, classical antiquity is not
merely a vague "legacy" but the cornerstone of their national
identity. In the field of sport and bodily culture, since the 1830s
there had been persistent attempts to establish firm and direct
links between ancient Greek athletics and modern sport through the
incorporation of sport in school curricula, the emergence of
national sport historiographies as well as the initiatives to
revive (in the 19th century) or appropriate (in the 20th) the
modern Olympics. Based on fieldwork and unpublished material
sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical
antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class
identities, and illuminate aspects of the complex modern
perceptions of classicism, sport and the body.
This book was previously published as a special issue of the
International Journal of the History of Sport.
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