The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games Tapa blanda - 2004
de Tony Perrottet
Perrottet approaches the Olympic Games day by day, to recreate for the first time the actual experience of visiting the ultimate sporting extravaganza--from the point of view of the ancient spectators, the beleaguered event organizers in the religious sanctuary of Olympia, and the famous Greek athletes themselves, who competed entirely unadorned in an echo of ancient initiation rites.
Resumen
Primera línea
IN THE HILLS above Olympia, I awoke with a start before dawn, feeling bleary-eyed from the Greek wine I'd drunk with some rowdy archaeologists the night before.
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"What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?
With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the event day by day to re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle. Using firsthand reports and little-known sources--including an actual "Handbook for a Sports Coach used by the Greeks--The Naked Olympics creates a vivid picture of an extravaganza performed before as many as forty thousand people, featuring contests as timeless as the javelin throw and as exotic as the chariot race.
Peeling away the layers of myth," Perrottet lays bare the ancient sporting experience--including the round-the-clock bacchanal inside the tents of the Olympic Village, the all-male nude workouts under the statue of Eros, and history's first corruption scandals involving athletes. Featuring sometimes scandalous cameos by sports enthusiasts Plato, Socrates, and Herodotus, The Naked Olympics offers essential insight into today's Games and an unforgettable guide to the world's first and most influential athletic festival. "Just in time for the modern Olympic games to return to Greece this summer for the first time in more than a century, Tony Perrottet offers up a diverting primer on the Olympics of the ancient kind....Well researched; his sources are as solid as sources come. It's also well writen....Perhaps no book of the season will show us so briefly and entertainingly just how complete is our inheritance from the Greeks, vulgarity and all."
--TheWashington Post
Detalles
- Título The Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games
- Autor Tony Perrottet
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Pbk.Ed.
- Páginas 256
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Random House Trade, New York
- Fecha de publicación June 8, 2004
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780812969917 / 081296991X
- Peso 0.45 libras (0.20 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 pulgadas (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.52 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2003066728
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.48
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Choice, 12/01/2004, Page 699
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/2004, Page 317
- Library Journal, 08/01/2004, Page 89
- New Yorker (The), 08/30/2004, Page 97
- Publishers Weekly, 04/12/2004, Page 47
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