Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient GreeceThe role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts examines this intriguing intersection, offering an important context for understanding the attitudes of ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, one that was in essence "performed." Detailing how athletics came to be rhetoric's "twin art" in the bodily aspects of learning and performance, Bodily Arts draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medical treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, including statues and vases. Debra Hawhee's insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual "mingling" of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, repetition, and response. Presenting her data against the backdrop of a broad cultural perspective rather than a narrow disciplinary one, Hawhee presents a pioneering interpretation of Greek civilization from the sixth, fifth, and fourth centuries BCE by observing its citizens in action. |
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... first, and most explicitly, here in the acknowledgments. Four people in particular served for me as models of learning and figures of discipline and therefore inspire this study most forcefully. They are my didaskaloi, Jeffrey Walker ...
... above all, Elizabeth Mazzolini andJohn Marsh, without whom I would not know the poetics of friendship and love. D.H. Champaign, Illinois 31 May, 2003 BODILY ARTS Bodily Arts ZZZ Introduction Shipwreck Sometime in the first century xiv.
Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece Debra Hawhee. Bodily Arts ZZZ Introduction Shipwreck Sometime in the first century BCE, a.
... first makes the assertion that humans are naturally made of two parts, body and mind, compounded together, sugkeisthai (180). He then goes on to describe how, generations before, certain people, seeing many arts (technas) established ...
Contents
Agonism and the Production of Aretē | 15 |
An Intelligence of the Body | 44 |
Kairotic Bodies | 65 |
The Arts of Training | 86 |
The Space of Training | 109 |
The Bodily Rhythms of Habit | 133 |
Rhetoric Athletics and the Circulation | 162 |