Bodily Arts : : Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece /

Bodily Arts : : Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece / / Debra Hawhee.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hawhee, Debra,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2005
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • A Note on Texts and Translations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Shipwreck
  • 1 Contesting Virtuosity Agonism and the Production of Aretē
  • 2 Sophistic Mētis An Intelligence of the Body
  • 3 Kairotic Bodie
  • 4 Phusiopoiesis: The Arts of Training
  • 5 Gymnasium I: The Space of Training
  • 6 Gymnasium II: The Bodily Rhythms of Habit
  • 7 The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Circulation of Honor
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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