Athletics And Philosophy In The Ancient World

Author : Heather L. Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317984955

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Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World by Heather L. Reid Pdf

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.

Author : Heather Reid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538156216

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Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport by Heather Reid Pdf

This comprehensive text examines the history, significance, and philosophical dimensions of sport. Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport, second edition, is organized to reflect the traditional division of philosophy into metaphysical, ethical, epistemological and political issues, while incorporating specific concerns of today’s athletic world, such as technology, violence, and professionalism. The second edition features expanded sections on social categories (including race, gender, and disability), sport in schools, and collegiate sports. Each chapter includes discussion questions, and the book features a comprehensive glossary.

Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118613566

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Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World by Donald G. Kyle Pdf

The second edition of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World updates Donald G. Kyle’s award-winning introduction to this topic, covering the Ancient Near East up to the late Roman Empire. • Challenges traditional scholarship on sport and spectacle in the Ancient World and debunks claims that there were no sports before the ancient Greeks • Explores the cultural exchange of Greek sport and Roman spectacle and how each culture responded to the other’s entertainment • Features a new chapter on sport and spectacle during the Late Roman Empire, including Christian opposition to pagan games and the Roman response • Covers topics including violence, professionalism in sport, class, gender and eroticism, and the relationship of spectacle to political structures

Author : E. Norman Gardiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780486147451

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Athletics in the Ancient World by E. Norman Gardiner Pdf

Concise, convincing book emphasizes relationship between Greek and Roman athletics and religion, art, and education. Colorful descriptions of the pentathlon, foot-race, wrestling, boxing, ball playing, and more. 137 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Robert A. Mechikoff,Steven Estes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015060395368

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A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education by Robert A. Mechikoff,Steven Estes Pdf

Author : Heather Reid,Mark Holowchak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739182080

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Aretism by Heather Reid,Mark Holowchak Pdf

Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World provides a tripartite model of sports ethics founded on ancient Greek principles and focused on personal, civic, and global integration. Heather Reid and Mark Holowchak apply these concepts as a golden mean between the extremes of the commercialist and recreational models of competition. This treatment is most applicable to students and academics concerned with the philosophy of sport, but will also be of interest to those in sports professions.

Author : Stephen Gaylord Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0300115296

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Ancient Greek Athletics by Stephen Gaylord Miller Pdf

Presenting a survey of sports in ancient Greece, this work describes ancient sporting events and games. It considers the role of women and amateurs in ancient athletics, and explores the impact of these games on art, literature and politics.

Author : Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198839590

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Ancient Greek Athletics by Charles H. Stocking,Susan A. Stephens Pdf

Présentation de l'éditeur : "This work presents a collection of texts in translation on ancient athletics in Greek and Roman history, including a wide range of topics from the Olympics to ancient conceptions of health and wellness."

Author : Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004097597

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Athletics in Ancient Athens by Donald G. Kyle Pdf

Author : David C. Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470777756

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A Brief History of the Olympic Games by David C. Young Pdf

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.

Author : Eleni Fournaraki,Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317979739

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Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece by Eleni Fournaraki,Zinon Papakonstantinou Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444339529

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A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity by Paul Christesen,Donald G. Kyle Pdf

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers

Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226155494

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Contemporary Athletics & Ancient Greek Ideals by Daniel A. Dombrowski Pdf

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 Greek thinkers to illuminate contemporary athletics. Dombrowski contends that the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus shed important light on issues—such as the pursuit of excellence, the concept of play, and the power of accepting physical limitations while also improving one’s body—that remain just as relevant in our sports-obsessed age as they were in ancient Greece. Bringing these concepts to bear on contemporary concerns, Dombrowski considers such questions as whether athletic competition can be a moral substitute for war, whether it necessarily constitutes war by other means, and whether it encourages fascist tendencies or ethical virtue. The first volume to philosophically explore twenty-first-century sport in the context of its ancient predecessor, Contemporary Athletics and Ancient Greek Ideals reveals that their relationship has great and previously untapped potential to inform our understanding of human nature.

Author : Reyes Bertolín Cebrián
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806167589

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The Athlete in the Ancient Greek World by Reyes Bertolín Cebrián Pdf

In the world of sports, the most important component is the athlete. After all, without athletes there would be no sports. In ancient Greece, athletes were public figures, idolized and envied. This fascinating book draws on a broad range of ancient sources to explore the development of athletes in Greece from the archaic period to the Roman Empire. Whereas many previous books have focused on the origins of the Greek games themselves, or the events or locations where the games took place, this volume places a unique emphasis on the athletes themselves—and the fostering of their athleticism. Moving beyond stereotypes of larger-than-life heroes, Reyes Bertolín Cebrián examines the experiences of ordinary athletes, who practiced sports for educational, recreational, or professional purposes. According to Bertolín Cebrián, the majority of athletes in ancient times were young men and mostly single. Similar to today, most athletes practiced sport as part of their schooling. Yet during the fifth century B.C., a major shift in ancient Greek education took place, when the curriculum for training future leaders became more academic in orientation. As a result, argues Bertolín Cebrián, the practice of sport in the Hellenistic period lost its appeal to the intellectual elite, even as it remained popular with large sectors of the population. Thus, a gap emerged between the “higher” and “lower” cultures of sport. In looking at the implications of this development for athletes, whether high-performing or recreational, this erudite volume traverses such wide-ranging fields as history, literature, medicine, and sports psychology to recreate—in compelling detail—the life and lifestyle of the ancient Greek athlete.

Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317989486

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Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World by Zinon Papakonstantinou Pdf

Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games. In recent years, the continuous re-assessment of old and new evidence in conjunction with the development of new methodological perspectives have created the need for a fresh examination of central aspects of ancient sport in a single volume. This book fills that gap in ancient sport scholarship. When did the ancient Olympics begin? How is sport depicted in the work of the fifth-century historian Herodotus? What was the association between sport and war in fifth- and fourth-century BC Athens? What were the social and political implications of the practice of Greek-style sport in third-century BC Ptolemaic Egypt? How were Roman gladiatorial shows perceived and transformed in the Greek-speaking east? And what were the conditions of sport participation by boys and girls in ancient Rome? These are some of the questions that this book, written by an international cast of distinguished scholars on ancient sport, attempts to answer. Covering a wide chronological and geographical scope (ancient Mediterranean from the early first millennium BC to fourth century AD), individual articles re-examine old and new evidence, and offer stimulating, original interpretations of key aspects of ancient sport in its political, military, cultural, social, ceremonial and ideological setting. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.