Arete by Stephen Miller
From the informal games of Homer's time to the highly organized contests of the Roman world, Miller has compiled a trove of ancient sources: Plutarch on boxing, Aristotle on the pentathlon, Philostratos on the buying and selling of victories, Vitruvius on literary competitions, and Xenophon on female body building. With nearly 50 per cent more texts than the highly successful second 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, and demonstrates that the concepts of virtue, skill, pride, valor, and nobility embedded in the word arete are only part of the story from antiquity.
Stephen G. Miller is Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley, and has been for more than 30 years the director of the excavations at Nemea. He is the author of Ancient Greek Athletics (2004) and Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium (California, 2001) and the general editor of Excavations at Nemea III: The Coins (California, 2004).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520241541 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520241541 |
| Title | Arete |
| Author | Stephen Miller |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2004-06-07 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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