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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... : The Bodily Rhythms of Habit 133 7. The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics, and the Circulation of Honor 162 Conclusion 189 Notes 197 Works Cited 207 Index 217 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK List of Illustrations Figure I.1:
... habit production, and the way in which the body takes over in agonistic situations. This is not to say that ''mind,'' or thought, is not important, but rather that it is part of a complex—a mind-body complex— that learns and moves in ...
... habit formation—between the dynamics of phusiopoiesis and the traffic between athletic and rhetorical training in the ancient gymnasium, the locus for citizen training. Chapter 6, ''Gymnasium II: The Bodily Rhythms of Habit,'' extends ...
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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 |