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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780292797277
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613.7/09495 22
LOC classification:
  • GV213 .H38 2004
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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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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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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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In English.

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