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Arete : Greek sports from ancient sources /
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda 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 f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed., with a new foreword. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda 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. 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. Thi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520953949 0520953940 9780520274334 0520274334 9780520931039 0520931033 9786613896568 661389656X |