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Arete : Greek sports from ancient sources / Stephen G. Miller, [editor].
LIBRA GV21 .A73 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Greece--History--Sources.
- Sports.
- Sports in literature.
- History.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- A second and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, : University of California Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources - Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on clay dust as an anti-perspirant and on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, Xenophon on female body building. With fully twice as many texts as the highly successful first edition, this new version of Arete offers readers an absorbing lesson in the culture of Greek athletics from the greatest of teachers - the ancients themselves.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520075080
- 0520075099
- OCLC:
- 22956398
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