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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... Mētis: An Intelligence of the Body 44 3. Kairotic Bodies 65 4. Phusiopoiesis: The Arts of Training 86 5. Gymnasium I: The Space of Training 109 6. Gymnasium II: The Bodily Rhythms of Habit 133 7. The Visible Spoken: Rhetoric, Athletics ...
... some Greek terms (e.g., agōn, aretē, mētis, kairos) untranslated, but only after discussing them at some length. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Acknowledgments One of the points xi A Note on Texts and Translations.
... mētis and kairos and their relation to the art of rhetoric. Jeffrey Walker's Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity (2000a), with its examination of rhetoric's emergence in re- lation to poetic practices, models the kind of deep contextual ...
... (mētis),immanent, embodied time (kairos), the production of one's nature (phusiopoiesis), and the space of the ... Mētis: An Intelligence of the Body,'' examines the ancient notion of mētis—cunning intelligence—as an important mode of ...
... mētis and kairos to training practices by examining the way in which youths were ''made ready'' for transformation. The chapter develops a term, phusiopoiesis, gleaned from a Democritean fragment, to indicate the ''production of one's ...
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 |