Download or read book A Brief History of the Olympic Games written by David C. Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
Download or read book The Olympics written by Allen Guttmann and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by R. D. Binfield and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Passion for Victory written by Benson Bobrick and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Olympic Games, starting with their inception in Ancient Greece and leading up to the 1936 games in Nazi Berlin.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympics written by Minna Lacey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a festival in ancient Greece to a worldwide event today, the Olympics have inspired athletes and supporters alike. Find out how the biggest sports event int he world was born and discover the amazing heroes who made Olympic history.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympics written by Rachel Bladon and published by MacMillan UK. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by Gina D. B. Clemen and published by Black Cat-Cideb. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Olympics written by Dave Anderson and published by Beech Tree Paperback Book. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the Olympics from its beginning in 776 B.C. to the present and relates stories of particular events such as track and field, gymnastics, and speed skating.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympics written by Minna Lacey and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a festival in ancient Greece to a worldwide event today, the Olympics have inspired athletes and supporters alike. Find out how the biggest sports event in the world was born and discover the amazing heroes who made Olympic history.
Download or read book History of Olympic Games written by Hugh Harlan and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Download or read book History of the Olympic Games written by Hugh Harlan and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Ancient Olympics written by Nigel Jonathan Spivey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Nigel Spivey paints a portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were--fierce contexts between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. Bitterly Contested and often bloody, the ancient Olympics were no an idealistic celebration of unity, but a clash of military powers in an arena not far removed from the battlefield. The author explores what the events were, the rules for competitors, training and diet, the pervasiveness of cheating and bribery, the prizes on offer, the exclusion of "barbarians," and protocols on pederasty. He also peels back the mythology surrounding the games today and investigates where our current conception of the Olympics has come from and how the Greek notions of beauty and competitiveness have influenced our modern culture.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by International Olympic Committee and published by Welbeck Children's. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in association with the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, this book brings to life the history of the Games of the Olympiad. Chronologically structured and featuring up to 200 original photographs, the book charts the story of this famous global event, beginning in 776 BC in ancient Greece through to its revival in 1896 and the 27 subsequent games.
Download or read book Olympia written by Robin Waterfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the northwestern corner of the great peninsula of the Peloponnese, close to the meeting point of the Cladeus and Alpheus rivers, lies a peaceful river valley overlooked by the steep-sided Hill of Cronus. Here, between the eighth century BCE and the fourth century CE, rival athletes competed for glory in the ancient Olympic Games. Every four years, and from every corner of the Mediterranean world – from Samos to Syracuse and from Sparta to Smyrna – they descended on this quiet corner of southern Greece sacred to Zeus, seeking to excel in disciplines as diverse as sprinting, boxing, wrestling, trumpet blowing and chariot and mulecart racing. The victors of these ancient games may have been awarded crowns of olive leaves in recognition of their achievements, but these original Olympics were no idealistic celebration of the classical aesthetic of grace and beauty shared by all of the participating Greek city-states, but often a bitterly contested struggle between political rivals. Robin Waterfield paints a vivid picture of the reality of the ancient Olympic Games; describes the events in which competitors took part; explores their purpose, rituals and politics; and charts the vicissitudes of their remarkable thousand-year history.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Games written by Rd Binfield and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Story of the Olympics written by Rachel Bladon and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olympics in Athens 1896 written by Michael Llewellyn Smith and published by Profile Business. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in the year that The Olympics returned to Athens this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational group of intriguing characters who re-invented them and the first generation of new sporting heroes. 'On 5 April 1896 James B. Connolly of the Suffolk Athletic Club, Boston, projected himself 13 m and 71 cm through the Attic air in the newly restored Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, in the hop, step and jump, and became the first Olympic victor for more than 1500 years.' That opening sentence gives the flavour of a rich and often entertaining work of history that brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in Britain, the US, France, Germany and other western countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
