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 . The concept of wily cunning , crafty metis , will be the focus of this chapter . As Marcel Detienne and Jean - Pierre Vernant point out in their book - length study of the word , metis generally refers to instantiations of ...
... mētis of every kind , so that the prizes may not elude your grasp . With metis the woodcutter is far better than by force ; with metis , again , the helmsman on the wine - dark sea guides his swift ship in the blustering winds ; with metis ...
... mētis exists only where it is put into practice . This compressed consideration of Odysseus and Athena elaborates two important features of mētis . The first extends the goddess Metis ' ca- pacity for disguise . Ultimately , though ...
Contents
Agonism and the Production of Aretē | 15 |
An Intelligence of the Body | 44 |
Kairotic Bodies | 65 |
Copyright | |
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