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- Title
Fatal Chest Injury with Lung Evisceration during Athletic Games in Ancient Greece.
- Authors
Menenakos, Evangelos; Alexakis, Nicholas; Leandros, Emmanuel; Laskaratos, Gerasimos; Nikiteas, Nikolaos; Bramis, John; Fingerhut, Abe
- Abstract
The “Olympic idealism” that dominates modern athletic culture is a myth. The true aims of the athletes in ancient Greece were rewards and life-long appointments lo various positions in the military or the city administration. Competitions in the athletic games included, among others, wrestling, boxing, and pangration (a combination of wrestling and boxing). Occasionally, these games resulted in severe trauma or death. Two eases of extreme violence resulting in fatal chest trauma are presented and commented on from both surgical and social points of view.
- Subjects
CHEST injuries; SPORTS injuries; OLYMPIC games (Ancient); ATHLETICS; GRECO-Roman wrestling; BOXING; GREEK history, 146 B.C.-323 A.D.
- Publication
World Journal of Surgery, 2005, Vol 29, Issue 10, p1348
- ISSN
0364-2313
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00268-005-7841-x