Onward to the Olympics. Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games (review)

Abstract

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 Womanizing Olympic Athletes: Policy & Practice during the Avery Brundage Era The Bridge to Change: The 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, South African Apartheid Policy, & the Olympic Boycott Paradigm 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.