Menenakos Evangelos, Alexakis Nicholas, Leandros Emmanuel, Laskaratos Gerasimos, Nikiteas Nikolaos, Bramis John, Fingerhut Abe
First Department of Propedeutic Surgery, University of Athens, 114 V. Sofias Avenue, 11527 Athens, Greece.
World J Surg. 2005 Oct;29(10):1348-51. doi: 10.1007/s00268-005-7841-x.
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 to 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 cases of extreme violence resulting in fatal chest trauma are presented and commented on from both surgical and social points of view.
主导现代体育文化的“奥林匹克理想主义”是个神话。古希腊运动员的真正目标是获得奖赏以及终身担任军队或城市管理中的各种职位。体育赛事中的竞赛项目包括摔跤、拳击和综合格斗（摔跤与拳击的结合）等。这些赛事偶尔会导致严重创伤甚至死亡。本文从外科和社会角度呈现并评论了两起因极端暴力导致致命胸部创伤的案例。
