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This book is dedicated to the reception of classical antiquity in modern sport and bodily culture. Taking Greece as a case-study, essays in the volume examine facets of the intricate association of classicism, sport, bodily culture, spectacles, national and gender identities, and the modern Olympics.
It was published as a special issu
List of contents
1. Prologue: Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece Zinon Papakonstantinou 2. From Antiquity to Olympic Revival: Sports and Greek National Historiography (Nineteenth – Twentieth Centuries) Christina Koulouri 3. Bodies that Differ: Mid- and Upper-Class Women and the Quest for ‘Greekness’ in Female Bodily Culture (1896–1940) Eleni Fournaraki 4. ‘Resurrecting’ Ancient Bodies: The Tragic Chorus in Prometheus Bound and Suppliant Women at the Delphic Festivals in 1927 and 1930 Antonis Glytzouris 5. Rallying the Nation: Sport and Spectacle Serving the Greek Dictatorships Gonda Van Steen 6. Fanning the Flame: Transformations of the 2004 Olympic Flame Eleana Yalouri 7. Epilogue: New Directions in Classical Reception, Sport and the Body in Modern Greece Zinon Papakonstantinou
About the author
Eleni Fournaraki is Assistant Professor in Modern Social History at the University of Crete. Her research interests focus on normative discourses on gender difference in19th century Greece, especially within the field of education. She has edited an anthology of sources on gender and education, Girls’ Education and Training: Greek Discourses (1830-1910): An Anthology (Historical Archives of Greek Youth – General Secretariat of Youth: Athens 1987) and published many scholarly articles on the history of physical education and sport in 19th century Greece, the history of women’s periodicals, gender history and citizenship.
Zinon Papakonstantinou is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Athens. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece (Duckworth: London 2008) and edited Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives (Routledge: London 2010). He has also published numerous scholarly articles on ancient Greek law, sport, commensality and alcoholic drinking.
Summary
This book is dedicated to the reception of classical antiquity in modern sport and bodily culture. Taking Greece as a case-study, essays in the volume examine facets of the intricate association of classicism, sport, bodily culture, spectacles, national and gender identities, and the modern Olympics. It was published as a special issu
