Name: Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy (en Inglés)
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Author: Miller, Peter J. ; Vasunia, Phiroze
ISBN: 9781350140219

portada Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter J. Miller

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.1 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781350140219

Categorías

Mundo antiguo
Historia antigua
Religiones y mitologías antiguas
Historia del deporte

Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy (en Inglés)

Peter J. Miller (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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Modern sport cannot be understood without ancient sport. Sport saturates contemporary society and the global reach of sport and its intense popularity characterizes the modern world. But, at the same time, sport is one of the most ancient human pursuits. In the globalized sport of today, the type of athletic performance and the ideology of sport and its apparent origins are mostly derived from the model of one pre-modern civilization: Graeco-Roman antiquity. Juxtaposing ancient writers with recent ones, including the modern Olympic founder Pierre de Coubertin and physical fitness impresario Bernarr Macfadden, and by examining the representation of sport in Olympic films, Miller demonstrates the ancient heritage of contemporary sport, and the creative ways in which ancient sport has been adapted, appropriated, mishandled and reimagined. Sport today contains a surprising contradiction: its explicit modernity (from its technological sophistication and integration into capitalist markets to its institutionalization and celebrity culture) and its supposed antiquity (from the mythology of the Olympics to the ancient roots of sporting civic and national pride, and the emotional and near religious fervour of sports fans). This book intervenes in one of the most important of the receptions of classical antiquity by examining how sports personalities, agencies, institutions and movements have consciously connected themselves to the Graeco-Roman past, even as they continue to insist on their own centrality in the modern world.