Edited by:

Paul Cartledge

Nikos Birgalias

Kostas Buraselis

Ariadni Gartziou-Tatti

Maria Dimopoulou (collaboration)

Publication year: 2013

Number of pages / Dimensions: 722 / 24x17

Hardbound edition

ISBN: 960-354-328-2

Book comment:

The 36 essays that follow were produced in their original version in the most congenial and stimulating surroundings imaginable Olympia. The notion of competitive sports - that very particular form of agonalism which the ancient Hellenes have bequeathed to the world - was, predictably enough, our intellectual starting-line. But before we reached the finishing post we found that study of sports and games by themselves was far from sufficient to exhaust the full meanings of this remarkably original cultural activity. Religion, war, peace, political thought, historical and literary reflections - these are just some of the further topics or approaches that our distinguished panel of Europe-wide experts found themselves most fruitfully engaged in and with.