Onward to the Olympics

Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games

By: Gerald P. Schaus (Editor), Stephen R. Wenn (Editor)

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The Olympic Games have had two lives--the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games' history. Leading North American archaeologists and historians of sport explore the origins of the Games, compare the ancient and the modern, discuss the organization and financing of such massive athletic festivals, and examine the participation, or the troubling lack of it, by women.

Onward to the Olympics bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern and concludes with a thought-provoking final essay that attempts to predict the future of the Olympics over the twenty-first century.

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``Schaus and Wenn have managed to put in the hands of any interested reader a collection of articles between two covers that deal with both ancient problems and modern issues. How can anyone interested in the study of ancient athletics resist at least skimming through an article with a title like: `Duke Kahanamoku--Olympic Champion and Uncle Sam's Adopted Son: The Cultural Text of a Hawaiian Conqueror' by Jim Nendel...or `Carl Diem's Inspiration of the Torch Relay? Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, and the Origin of the Olympic Flame' by Robert Barney and Anthony Bijkerk.... These, and many others in Part II, are important papers, especially for classicists like me who regularly teach an `Ancient Sport' course especially popular with non-classics majors.'' -- Michael Carter, Brock University -- Bryn Mawr Classical Review, January 2008, 200802
``[T]he authors are experts ... and the book is well edited. It will certainly please those fascinated by the Olympics.... Recommended.'' -- D.W. Hill, University of North Texas -- CHOICE, September 2007, 200709

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Preface
Introduction
The Ancient Olympic Games through the Centuries
Politics & the Bronze Age Origins of Olympic Practices
Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyl, & the Foundation of the Olympic Games
The First Olympic Games
The Transformation of Athletics in Sixth-Century Greece
The Ancient Olympics & Their Ideals
Olympic Losers: Why Athletes Who Did Not Win at Olympia Are Remembered
Judges & Judging at the Ancient Olympic Games
Heroic & Athletic Sortition at Ancient Olympia
Fabulous Females & Ancient Olympia
The Halma: A Running or Standing Jump?
Connections between Olympia & Stymphalus
Commemorative Cash: The Coins of the Ancient & Modern Olympics
The Olympic Games in Modern Times
Duke Kahanamoku -- Olympic Champion & Uncle Sam's Adopted Son: The Cultural Text of a Hawaiian Conqueror
Carl Diem's Inspiration for the Torch Relay? Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, & the Origin of the Olympic Flame
The Great Progression: A Content Analysis of the Lake Placid News & the Los Angeles Times' Treatment of the 1932 Olympics
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Splitting Hairs: The Struggle between the Canadian Federal Government & the Organizing Committee of 1976 Torontolympiad Concerning South African Participation
Juan Antonio Samaranch's Score Sheet: Revenue Generation & the Olympic Movement, 1980-2001
Olympic Ideals: Pragmatic Method & the Future of the Games
"To Construct a Better & More Peaceful World", or "War Minus the Shooting"?: The Olympic Movement's Second Century
Index
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