ITS IMPACT IN ANTIQUITY
Authors criticising athletics * Tyrtaeus * Xenophanes * Euripides * Lucillius * Galenus
Art celebrating athletics * Paintings on Panathenaic amphoras * Coins referring to sports * Statues of athletes - Charioteer of Delphi - Diskobolos (Discus thrower) - Doryphoros (Spear carrier) - The sitting boxer * Authors praising athletics - Pindarus - Pausanias - Philostratus
Time-reckoning in olympiads
ITS IMPACT AFTER ANTIQUITY
* Christian athletic metaphors
The revival of the ancient games: the modern Olympic games * Rising popularity of sports in the nineteenth century * Amateurism * Mens sana in corpore sano * Modern Olympic games before 1896 * Pierre de Coubertin * 1894 : The Paris congress * The games of 1896 in Athens * The marathon * List of the modern Olympic games : 1896 - 2008 * The Nazi games of Berlin in 1936 * The Olympic flame