Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals write by Daniel A. Dombrowski. This book was released on 2010-10-21. Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite their influence in our culture, sports inspire dramatically less philosophical consideration than such ostensibly weightier topics as religion, politics, or science. Arguing that athletic playfulness coexists with serious underpinnings, and that both demand more substantive attention, Daniel Dombrowski harnesses the insights of ancient G...
Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World
Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World write by Heather L. Reid. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between athletics and philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome focused on the connection between athleticism and virtue. It begins by observing that the link between athleticism and virtue is older than sport, reaching back to the athletic feats of kings and pharaohs in early Egypt and Mesopotamia. It then traces the role of athletics and the Olympic Games in transforming the idea of aristocracy as something acquired by birth to something that can be trained. This idea of training virtue through the techniques and practice of athletics is examined in relation to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Then Roman spectacles such as chariot racing and gladiator games are studied in light of the philosophy of Lucretius, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. The concluding chapter connects the book’s ancient observations with contemporary issues such as the use of athletes as role models, the relationship between money and corruption, the relative worth of participation and spectatorship, and the role of females in sport. The author argues that there is a strong link between sport and philosophy in the ancient world, calling them offspring of common parents: concern about virtue and the spirit of free enquiry. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Ethics and Sport.
Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks
Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks write by Edward Marwick Plummer. This book was released on 1898. Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece
Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece write by Eleni Fournaraki. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood. This volume takes modern Greece as a case-study and explores, in depth, issues related to the reception and use of classical antiquity in modern sport, spectacle and bodily culture. For citizens of the Greek nation-state, classical antiquity is not merely a vague "legacy" but the cornerstone of their national identity. In the field of sport and bodily culture, since the 1830s there had been persistent attempts to establish firm and direct links between ancient Greek athletics and modern sport through the incorporation of sport in school curricula, the emergence of national sport historiographies as well as the initiatives to revive (in the 19th century) or appropriate (in the 20th) the modern Olympics. Based on fieldwork and unpublished material sources, this book dissects the use and abuse of classical antiquity and sport in constructing national, gender and class identities, and illuminate aspects of the complex modern perceptions of classicism, sport and the body. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Greek Athletics and the Olympics
Greek Athletics and the Olympics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Greek Athletics and the Olympics write by Alan Beale. This book was released on 2011-09-29. Greek Athletics and the Olympics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. Where did the idea of celebrating the Olympic Games every four years come from? The short answer is ancient Greece. The very name 'Olympic' announces an origin for the competition, but, as with most of our classical heritage, it is easy for the superficial similarities to conceal major cultural differences. The purpose of this new book in the Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts series is to provide an introduction to Greek athletics and their most important competition at Olympia through a selection of contemporary visual and literary sources.
