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Title:
Arete : Greek sports from ancient sources
Author:
Miller, Stephen G.
ISBN:
9780520953949
Edition:
3rd ed., with a new foreword.
Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Abstract:
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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