Pindar in 1896 and the Poetics of the First Modern Olympiad
By Stamatia Dova
Minas Minoides, Philostratus’ Gymnastikos and the Nineteenth Century Greek Olympic Movement
By Zinon Papakonstantinou
The Aesthetics of Hellenism in the Modern Olympics
By Charles H. Stocking
Pulling the Pieces Together: Social Capital and the Olympics, Ancient and Modern
By Paul Christesen
“The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.”
International Olympic Committee
“Serious sport … is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.”
George Orwell, “The Sporting Spirit”