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The Olympics and Philosophy /
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the tim...
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A greatness of Olympic proportions / Michael W. Austin
- Machiavelli, the Olympic ideal, and the southern arrow / Raymond Angelo Belliotti
- What's more than gold / Scott F. Parker
- The Olympics of the mind : philosophy and athletics in the ancient Greek world / Paul A. Cantor and Peter Hufnagel
- Go tell the Spartans : honor, courage, and excellence in the ancient Olympic games / Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
- The soul of an Olympian : Olympism and the ancient philosophical ideal of aretē / Heather L. Reid
- More than games : Olympism as a moral approach to sport / Douglas W. McLaughlin and Cesar R. Torres
- Olympism between individualism and transnationalism / Milan Hosta
- Citius, altius, fortius, virtuous / Jeffrey P. Fry
- The Olympics and steroids / Stephen Kershnar
- Olympic boxing : a not so sweet science / Joseph D. Lewandowski
- Should the Olympics be the very best? : a plea on behalf of the second-rate / Regan Reitsma
- The strong men keep a comin' on : African American sports participation and the discourse of public dissent / Pellom McDaniels III
- Olympic Amazons and the Cold War : the rise and fall of gender radicalism / Kutte Jönsson
- Buns of gold, silver, bronze : the state of Olympic women's beach volleyball / Charlene Weaving
- The ethics of boycotting the Olympics / Charles Taliaferro and Michel Le Gall
- Sport, patriotism, and the Olympic Games / Alun R. Hardman and Hywel Iorwerth
- Sharing the moment : on the Olympic Games as spectacle / Matthew Sharpe.