Bodily Arts

Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece

Autor: Debra Hawhee

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Editura: University of Texas Press

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The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition,...

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Autor

Debra Hawhee

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2005

Pagini

240

EAN

9780292721401

ISBN

0292721404

Enbook ID

04872958

Editura

University of Texas Press

Greutate

478

Dimensiuni

161 x 237 x 20

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The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. "Bodily Arts" examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, one that was in essence 'performed'. Detailing how athletics came to be rhetoric's 'twin art' in the bodily aspects of learning and performance, "Bodily Arts" draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medical treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, including statues and vases. Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual 'mingling' of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, repetition, and response. Presenting her data against the backdrop of a broad cultural perspective rather than a narrow disciplinary one, Hawhee presents a pioneering interpretation of Greek civilization from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE by observing its citizens in action.

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