APA 4114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chariot Racing, Pankration, Pierre De Coubertin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 4114
• Professor: Stephanie Simard

Document Summary

Gender and sport: a historic perspective in history, women have been regarded as lower than men: smaller brains, inferior, etc. Olympics (games in honour of zeus: games were largely religious in character, competition between greek city states, except for chariot racing where should could own the horse. Were only for men but not ride it games as spectators. Women were forbidden from competing and even watching the: the men were naked and they didn"t want the women to, priestess of demeter was the only woman at the games see that. Games included: boxing, chariot racing, pentathlon (discus, javelin, long jump, running, wrestling), pankration (blend of boxing and wrestling) Winning an olympic game was one of the highest honours in. Greece: become local heroes, looked after by their home city state for the rest of their. Games were then believed to be pagan and were abolished until lives. 1896: pierre de coubertin considered now the greatest global sporting event.