Author: KITROEFF, ALEXANDER
Title: Wrestling With the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics
Description: New York, Greekworks.Com. 2004, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0974766003) Hardcover. Book, Wrestling With The Ancients .. especially focuses upon the time span ranging from the nineteenth-century origins of the modern Olympic games to the present day, and the interconnection between the Olympics and Greek nationalism. A chapter by chapter discussion of : Greece's Olympics /The 1896 Olympic games in Athens The Athens interim Olympics of 1906/Rediscovering the classical legacy Greece and the Berlin Olympiad/Olympia and the cold war/ Greece as the permanent Olympic venue? /Atlanta 1996 and how Greece lost the centenary games / Winning and almost losing the 2004 Athens Olympiad / Countdown to Athens 2004. A well y researched, methodical tour through Olympic history and its reverberations upon Greek national identity" viii, 276p.+ plates, illus.bibliography, index. Publisher's PR book mark laid in. New/New.

Keywords: 0974766003 Modern Greece Sociology Customs Olympic Games