Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources (Paperback)
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Short Description for Arete From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, this work compiles 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 07 June 2004
- Format: Paperback 248 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation | Sport
- ISBN 13: 9780520241541 ISBN 10: 0520241541
- Sales rank: 461,978
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Full description for Arete
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.
