| Edition |
3rd ed., with a new foreword. |
| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compileda 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 demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity. Thi. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sports -- Greece -- History -- Sources.
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Sports. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
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Sports in literature.
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Sports in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Sources.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Miller, Stephen G. (Stephen Gaylord), 1942-2021.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780520274334 |
| ISBN |
9780520953949 electronic book |
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0520953940 electronic book |
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