Aspecte mai puţin cunoscute despre originea Jocurilor Olimpice moderne

Abstract

In this paper we set out to talk about lesser-known issues regarding the efforts of Pierre de Coubertinʼs predecessors, who brought the ancient Olympic ideal back to the present, managed to organize the Olympic Games, considered by specialists to be pre-Modern. We return to the Evangelos Zappa, of which I have written before, with the Pre-Olympic Games (1859, 1870, 1875, 1888-1889), but we also speak of the poet Panagiotis Soustos, who supported him in his endeavors, then of Demetrios Vikelas and, not lastly, by the English physician William Penny Brookes, who succeeded in creating the National Olympian Association and organizing the Shropshire Olympic Games (1861).
Thus, the study aims at a careful analysis of the historical premises and conditions, which made possible the revival of an ancient ideal, at the level of the 19th century, as well as a moral reparation in favor of those who, unjustly, were forgotten for a long time. Pierre de Coubertin’s success in reviving the Modern Olympics in 1896.