Reflecting on Modern Sport in Ancient Olympia

Reflecting on Modern Sport in Ancient Olympia
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Download or read book Reflecting on Modern Sport in Ancient Olympia written by Heather Reid and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pindar called Olympia ¿Queen of truth,¿ so it was appropriate that nearly 100 philosophers of sport from 18 countries on four continents presented 80 different papers there in September of 2016. This proceedings gathers fourteen of them, including two of the keynotes. Topics range from sport in education to transgender athletes to Taijiquan. Authors include Drew A. Hyland, Francisco Javier López Frías, José Luis Pérez Triviño, Terry J. McMurtry, Junko Yamaguchi, Emanuel Hurych, Boryana Angelova-Igova, Daniel T. Durbin, Kim Hee-sub, Kwon Oh-ryun, Matt Waddell, Angela Schneider, Matteo Cacchiarelli, Sarah Teetzel, and Heather L. Reid.


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