Search for: [Abstract = "We know that the athletes who came from Sparta did not dominate the ancient Panhellenic Games, although they were by no means regarded as outstanding favourites of these agones. Despite this fact, modern sport refers to ancient Sparta eagerly and frequently \(most spectacularly in the onomastics of sports clubs\). This is caused by the fact that the most important element of the still living Spartan mirage lies in the Spartan military upbringing. Having been idealized, its suppositions and aims turned out to coincide with the value system ascribed to sport by the educators, mentors and politicians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This phenomenon first appeared in its most complete form in Holland."]
