The First International Olympic Games 1896: marathon race - genesis and chronicles

Abstract

There is no book, monogram, or collective work about the Olympics that does not makereference to the 1896 First Olympic Marathon Race. The Marathon and the victory ofSpyridon Louis have become the highlight of the A΄ International Olympic Games. Thepurpose of this thesis, through a historical and theoretical review of the A΄ InternationalOlympic Games of 1896, is to retrieve those pieces regarding the Marathon Road and to reconstructfrom the beginning its birth and timeline. Newspaper files were primarily utilizedbecause the press, by means of testimonies from the journalists who were themselveseyewitnesses, had watched the games and recorded in detail, moments and events that do notexist in the official records of the Olympic Committee. Modern Athens benefits from theOlympics for it revives the tradition and the legend of Pheidippides. The exclusion of theequestrian competitions and the need to support all that is Greek, was instrumental in theaddition of the Marathon Race to the sche ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/43423
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/43423
ND
43423
Alternative title
Α' Διεθνείς Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1896: μαραθώνιος δρόμος - η γένεση και το χρονικό
Author
Tsonias, Stavros (Father's name: Athanasios)
Date
2016
Degree Grantor
Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Committee members
Αναστασίου Αθανάσιος
Καραθανάσης Αθανάσιος
Αλμπανίδης Ευάγγελος
Γεωργιάδης Κωνσταντίνος
Βλαχόπουλος Συμεών
Μουρατίδου Αικατερίνη
Καϊμακάμης Βασίλειος
Discipline
Humanities and the Arts ➨ History and Archaeology
Humanities and the Arts ➨ Other Humanities
Keywords
Olympic games; Marathon race; Louis; start point; Marathon road
Country
Greece
Language
Greek
Description
6, iv, 219 σ., im.
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