Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives) - Image 1

£76.74

Routledge Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

Name: Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 72.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 65 days • 65 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 65 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £73 (37 days, 56.9%)

Price range: £73 - £77

Price levels: 2 different prices over 65 days

Description

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 Based on fieldwork and unpublished material sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class identities, and illuminate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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0415667534
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 12 May 2011
Listed Since: 10 November 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Oxford Handbook Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World

Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece

Routledge Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended Book

Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended: Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational (Sport in the Global Society)

Routledge Olympism: The Global Vision - Sport in the Global Society

Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece

Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity

Sport in the Greek and Roman Worlds: Greek Athletic Identities And Roman Sports And Spectacle Volume 2 (Oxford Readings In Classical Studies)

Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture: New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion

Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (Sport in the Global Society)

Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals (Sports and Athletics Preparation, Performance, and Psychology)

Games and Sporting Events in History: Organisations, Performances and Impact (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

Routledge - The Visual in Sport - Historical Perspectives

The Visual in Sport (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World: Contests of Virtue (Ethics and Sport)

Routledge - Heritage and the Olympics: People, Place and Performance

The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

Legacies of Ancient Greece in Contemporary Perspectives (Series in World History)

Olympic Perspectives (Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives)

Global Olympics: Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games: 3 (Research in the Sociology of Sport, 3)

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

The Politics of Sport: Community, Mobility, Identity (Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives)

Body Behaviour and Identity Construction in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

Routledge Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity Book