Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources - Softcover

Miller, Stephen G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520241541 ISBN 13: 9780520241541

Verlag: University of California Press, 2004

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Book by Miller Stephen G

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"Unquestionably the best available sourcebook on the nature of athletics and its role in Greek society from Homeric through Roman Imperial times."--Jeremy Rutter, "Classical World"

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From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. With nearly 50 per cent more texts than the highly successful second edition, this new version of "Arete" offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520241541
• ISBN 13: 9780520241541
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248