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1. Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Zinon Papakonstantinou

   Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the...

   To Be Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece

   Edited by Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their...

   Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge