Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources. Stephen G. Miller

Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources



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Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources Stephen G. Miller ebook pdf
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Page: 251
ISBN: 0520241541, 9780520241541

From Library Journal

"Arete" was a word used by ancient Greeks to convey the sense of skill, excellence, and honor in their sports. This collection explores arete in 192 readings drawn from ancient texts translated, edited, and annotated by Miller (classical archaeology, Univ. of California). Thematically arranged, it spans eight centuries, beginning c.750 B.C., and describes athletes, individual sports, equipment, festivals, amateurism, nationalism, and the involvement of politics, society, women, and the arts. This new edition has twice the selections of the first (Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1979), benefiting from recently discovered texts and from Miller's expanded scholarship. However, it does not have the breadth, in text as well as illustrations, of Waldo E. Sweet's Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece (Oxford Univ. Pr., 1987). An index provides access to subjects, writers, and definitions of words. For large sports collections that do not have Sweet's treatment.- Donald W. Max well, Stone Hills Lib. Network, Bloomington, Ind.Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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