Κοινότητα Αναγνωστών Βιβλίων - readers.gr

120 θεότρελα, φανταστικά, συναρπαστικά quiz με τα οποία θα θυμηθείς ή θα μάθεις ό,τι αφορά τους Ολυμπιακούς Αγώνες στην αρχαιότητα, την αναβίωσή τους το 1896, αλλά και τον τρόπο με τον οποίο διεξάγονται σήμερα.

Ο Δήμος Αθηναίων με ιδιαίτερη ικανοποίηση συμμετέχει δια του Πολιτισμικού του Οργανισμού στο κορυφαίο γεγονός της τελετής των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων στην Αθήνα με τη διοργάνωση δύο εξαιρετικής σημασίας πολιτιστικών εκδηλώσεων: την "Έκθεση εικαστικών τεχνών" που επιμελήθηκε και παρουσιάζει η Δημοτική Πινακοθήκη και τις "Εικαστικές Παρεμβάσεις" που έχουμε στόχο να πραγματοποιήσουμε σε χώρους της Αθήνας. Το θέμα "2004 Αναζητώντας την Ολυμπιακή Ιδέα", που πρότεινε η Οργανωτική Επιτροπή, επέτρεψε στους καλλιτέχνες, τόσο της έκθεσης, όσο και των Εικαστικών Παρεμβάσεων, να καταθέσου...

Orestes Varvitsiotes has produced an extremely useful account of the varied significance of sport in Ancient Greece. In a series of succinct chapters, he discusses the cultural meaning the Ancients attached to sport, by examining its place in important areas of life in Ancient Greece. These include the value system, myths, the works of Homer, poetry and the arts. Varvitsiotes' study considers the major sporting institution of the Ancient world, the Olympics, alongside the Isthmian, Nemean and Pythian Games. This informative and timely work is a valuable source that will con...

Athletics as a vehicle of the greek ideal and not just as physical exertion of the body is rooted in ancient Greece. Athletics is part of the concept and goal of upbringing and education. The Olympic Games not only promoted the greek type of body, but also cultivated competition, elevated greek art and bonded greek people together. Classical Greece provided the model for the perfect and ideal man in its search for morality and physical perfection. This is the notion of greek ideal of kalogathia (benevolence), a classic humanist ideal, inherent in the Olympic Games. The br...

Το θαυμάσιο επιστημονικό σύγγραμμα αλλά και λεύκωμα "Στάδια και αγώνες από την Ολυμπία στην Αντιόχεια" ανάγλυφα μας δίνει πλήρως τη λαμπερή πορεία, ολόκληρων χιλιετιών και της εξέλιξης των αγωνιστικών εκφράσεων. Ο αθλητισμός, σημαντικός παράγων ενότητας- μαζί με τη γλώσσα, τη θρησκεία και την οικογένεια- του αρχαίου ελληνικού κόσμου, προσέφερε την τέλεια έκφραση του ελεύθερου πολίτη που διαφέντευε το πνεύμα του και το σώμα του, αλλά ταυτόχρονα γνώριζε να τα καλλιεργεί -αμφότερα- και να τα διαφυλάττει στα υψηλότερα επίπεδα. Τα προσδιοριζόμενα Στάδια, μέσα από την επιστημονι...

[...] The reader of the present volume draws information on what preceded the revival of the Games in Greece and abroad, on their successful organization and their global appeal, as well as on all the parameters of Greek life in that period. And of course, the reader will appreciate too the magnitude of the progress that has been made since, as well as the kinds of changes that have taken place in the natural and mandame environment of Attica in the century and more that has bassed. This book about Athens in 1896 also describes, with scholarly authority and clarity, the po...

A fantastic journey in the time and the place of the Olympic Games, via exceptionally fine photographic works of older times. Embarking upon our journey in 776 B.C., from the birthplace of the games, Olympia, we arrive in Athens of 1896, on the site of the Panathinaiko stadium. In a year when the Olympic Games return to their birthplace, this book pays tribute not just to the athletes but also the people of ancient Greece, whom we witness come to life before our very eyes, touching our souls and transferring us into the atmosphere of another era.

In Ancient Greece, athletic events were held not solely for the sake of the contest itself but, rather, within the context of religious festivals in or near sanctuaries in honour of the gods. The athletes competed first for the gods and then for their native city and themselves. It was believed that the victors in the games did not distinguish themselves through their superior ability alone, but because they enjoyed divine favour. [...] "Games and sanctuaries in Ancient Greece" celebrates the athletes, the games, the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all, the inspiring s...

The Olympic ideal found resonance, not just in its cradle, the sacred land of Olympia where it was born and nurtured, but also in three other Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries, as well as in major local festivals, from the brilliant Panathenaia to the athletic contests in cities and sanctuaries in distant regions of the Eastern and Western world. With the book "Games and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece" by Panos Valavanis, which we first published in 2004, when Greece sought and successfully held the Olympic Games in Athens, we sought to present a richly illustrated work of scholar...

Les Jeux Olympiques sont indissociables du stade Panathenaique, qui accuellit en 1896 Jeux Olympiques des temps modernes lorsque ceux-ci furent retablis avec le faste que l'on siat. Depuis lors et jusqu'a l' Olympiade intermediaire de 1906, voire jusqu' a nos jours, le coeur d' Athenes bat dans le stade Panathenaique, point de ralliement des Atheniens qui viennent y partager les grands moments que vit leur cite.[...] (Evangelos Venizelos)

-The history of the archaeological site at Olympia, from historic times through the Archaic and Classical period to the Roman and Early Christian eras. -Detailed descriptions of the history and conduct of the Olympic Games. -Exquisite photos of the site and museum exhibits. -History of the sanctuary's buildings and ex-votos. -reconstructions of the ancient monuments depicting how what we see now looked like then.

-Presentation of the most important monuments with reconstructions so thata "then" comlements "now" - Tour of the historical site and the Archaeological Museum of Olympia