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[Athens 1896: The Olympic Games and Albert Meyer's Book of Photographs]Athens: Benaki Museum, 2003. In Greek. Soft cover, 31x25 cm, 52 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-7671-42-4.What did Athens look like on the eve of the first modern Olympic Games? What problems did the city face? How did Athenians meet the demands of this international event? Through photographs, texts, slides and activities children will learn about the first Olympic projects and about the athletes and participants in the 1896 Games. The folder is addressed to students in the final grades of primary school and in secondary school.Como se veia Atenas en visperas de la organizacion de los primeros Juegos Olimpicos contemporaneos? ?Que problemas tenia que afrontar? ?Como respondio a las exigencias de la organizacion internacional? Las fotografias, los textos, las diapositivas y las actividades de la carpeta nos trasladan a las primeras obras olimpicas, junto a los atletas y los ejecutores de los acontecimientos.IMPORTANT: The shipping cost is… Read More

Athens 2004. Brand new. A history of the Marathon classical course from 1896 to 2004. Soft cover, 24 cm, 160 pp., ill.

Bilingual (Greek-English) edition. Soft cover, 24 cm, 90 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-618-80422-1-6.

SEVEN VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE.
A multilingual commemorative edition for the Olympics of 2004 in Athens; contains the original ancient Greek text and seven translations: English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish, as well as Modern Greek, the language of the host country. These languages were chosen because, apart from being international, they have also been used by distinguished Pindarists, and most translations of the Olympic, Pythic, Isthmic and Nemean Odes are written in them. Modern Greek has evolved from ancient Greek -more precisely from the attic dialect - and has come to us through the hellenistic demotic and the byzantine vernacular. The slip-case contains seven volumes (30 cm, XXXVI+148 pages for each volume), one for each translation. Each volume includes the classical greek text, an Introduction to Pindar's poetic oeuvre, written especially by William H. Race, and a typographic perspective prepared by G.D. Matthiopoulos. The Classical Greek text is from William H. Race's edition in… Read More

In English. Cloth, 28 cm, 304 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-213-132-9.
An account of the dramatic rise of ancient greek athletics, centering around its crowning achievement, the olympic games. It contains chapters devoted to the social structure that favoured the development of athletics and also to the central importance ot its role in education. Each event is examined separately, its technique analysed and the book is thus comprehensive and informative, as well as a pleasure to read.
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Athens, 2013. Hard cover, 24 cm, 724 pp., ill. ISBN: 978-960-354-328-2.Contains 36 papers on the ancient Games.