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Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
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by 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, 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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  • Title Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
  • Author Debra Hawhee
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition; 1st
  • Pages 226
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Texas Press, Austin
  • Publication date January 1, 2005
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780292705845 / 0292705840
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.36 x 0.8 in (23.42 x 16.15 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Rhetoric, Ancient, Physical education and training - Greece -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004005736
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613.709

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