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Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources
Stephen G. Miller
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| #104651 in Books | 2012-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.80 x6.00l,.80 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Easy read|By StephLo|I had to read this for a college course in ancient athletics. I liked it. It's easy to understand and not boring like most textbooks.|1 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By jaskaran|Perfect|0 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars |
"A remarkable compendium of ancient sources . . . An invaluable resource for the study of Greek sport . . . What Miller’s Arete does extremely well is to show that 'nearly almost every aspect of athletics we know today existed already in that distan
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. Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers, the ancients themselves, and demonstrate...
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