Can I read Olympics in Athens 1896 : The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games on EtoBox?

Olympics in Athens 1896 : The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games by Smith, Michael Llewellyn, 1939- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Olympics in Athens 1896 : The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games about?

x., 290 pages : 25 cm "This book, a contribution to the modern history of Greece, weaves together three strands in the revival of the Olympic games: the nineteenth-century explosion of sport in Britain and the US, France, Germany and other European countries, which created the conditions for international competition; the social and economic progress of the young Greek state which made Athens a plausible candidate as host of the Games; and the genius of the idealist Baron Pierre de Coubertin in yoking together amateur sport and internationalism in a new institution with rich symbolic power." "The story moves from Athens to the Rugby School of Dr. Arnold and Tom Brown; Much Wenlock in Shropshire, home of an Olympic experiment which inspired Coubertin; Paris of the Second Empire; Princeton University in the United States; Olympia in the Peloponnese where extensive German excavations revealed the site of the ancient Olympics; and back to Athens for the climax of the Games. Besides Coubertin, the cast of characters includes the great German classicist Ernst Curtius who revealed Olympia to the world, the best-selling Greek novelist Dimitrios Vikelas who became the first President of the

Author

Smith, Michael Llewellyn, 1939-

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781861973429

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, History